Return to Health at Home page. This fact makes it critical that every woman understands what symptoms may be associated with these diseases.
Cancers result when the normal, orderly pattern of growth of individual cells goes haywire.
Alterations in the genetic material, the blueprint of life, may cause changes in the cells' response to normal controls of growth and multiplication. When cells undergo a malignant change, they can invade nearby normal tissue and can spread to other parts of the body. This spread to other parts of the body is called metastasis. Ovarian Cancer Ovarian cancers usually arise on the surface of the ovary, causing enlargement of the ovaries. The cells may drop onto other surfaces within the abdomen and cause secondary, or metastatic, tumors.