2006-10-20 06:32:14 · 9 answers · asked by mrsvdof5 1 in Health ➔ Women's Health
suppose so
2006-10-20 06:34:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
No. A PAP (not pep) smear can not detect ovarian cancer. It will tell you if you have cervical cancer tho. In order to diagnose ovarian cancer you can do a couple things. If they do blood work and your white cell count is high that might be and indication of cancer, but at the same time you could be fighting a simple infection / virus. They might do an ultrasound to see if you have any masses in your abdomen and an x-ray is another option. If they suspect anything is going on they would probably, ultimately(after an ultrasound) do whats called a laparoscopy.
A laparoscopy is a simple outpatient procedure (i actually had to have one about a week ago because I have endometriosis). They make a small incision at the top of your bikini line and put a little camera in there to actually SEE whats going on in there. The perk is that if they do find anything 9 times out of 10 they can take it out right then. I hope that answered your question.
Take care :)
2006-10-20 06:44:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so.
This is what I found:
Pap tests screen for malignant and precancerous cells in the cervix, not the ovary. Pap tests can detect ovarian cancer, but usually only advanced cases. The same is true for pelvic exams, which can pick up earlier cancers in other organs.
Scientists are studying several possible tools, mainly blood tests and sonograms, for screening for ovarian cancer. But they have yet to find a test that can pick up most early cases without mistakenly identifying many healthy women as having the disease. Over a lifetime, a woman has a 1-in-55 risk of getting ovarian cancer.
Nearly three in four ovarian cancers aren't diagnosed until they have spread beyond the ovaries, making the disease the fourth-leading cancer killer of U.S. women. And though studies have found that ovarian cancer patients often report symptoms long before diagnosis, the symptoms resemble those of far more common ailments.
Most screening research has focused on a blood test for a protein called CA-125, elevated in many women with ovarian cancer, and transvaginal ultrasound, an ultrasound performed with a small instrument placed in the vagina.
Scientists from the National Cancer Institute's Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial found a large number of false positives — healthy women identified as possibly having cancer — when they screened 28,816 women with CA-125, transvaginal ultrasound or both
Not too promising. Here's where you can read the rest:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-01-29-ovarian-cancer_x.htm
2006-10-20 06:40:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, a PAP smear only detects changes in the cells of your cervix [neck of the uterus]. The doctor scrapes the surface of your cervix, and smears the sample on a slide which is then sent to a pathological laboratory to be evaluated microcospically. To detect ovarian cancer, a biopsy of the ovarian tissue is done if a suspicious lump or mass is detected by means of a sonogram, CT scan or MRI.
2006-10-20 06:47:46 · answer #4 · answered by la_nena_sabe... 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. A PAP smear can detect abnormal cervical cells. If a PAP comes back abnormal, then a cervical biopsy will be done to detect for cervical cancer.
Ovarian cancer is detected another way....usually a cyst that is removed from the ovary and then analyzed.
2006-10-20 06:35:12 · answer #5 · answered by Mom of One in Wisconsin 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. The Cervical smear will in difficulty-free words inform you once you've maximum cancers or pre cancerous cells in the cervix of the womb. there is, notwithstanding a blood try, which provides alerts to ovarian maximum cancers.
2016-12-05 01:14:44 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, a pap smear is focused on cervical cells. Not on your ovaries. a pap smear helps determine the presence of malignant cells on the surface of the cervix. I would not be helpful to determine ovarian cancer, or a cyst.
2006-10-20 06:39:28 · answer #7 · answered by Im just me2 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
pap smear no,cancer of the cervix thats all
2006-10-20 06:35:01 · answer #8 · answered by dumplingmuffin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No-Uterine Cancer
2006-10-20 06:34:26 · answer #9 · answered by god knows and sees else Yahoo 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋