[These recommendations may be summarized as follows: 1) site-specific ovarian carcinoma: screening with physical examination, CA 125, and ultrasound, and bilateral oophorectomy after childbearing has been completed; 2) breast/ovary syndrome: screening for ovarian cancer as above, mammography and bilateral oophorectomy as above, and possible prophylactic mastectomy; and 3) Lynch Cancer Family Syndrome: screening for ovarian cancer as above, colonoscopy and endometrial biopsy, and prophylactic hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy once childbearing is complete.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE