It had, and so he ordered drug treatment. It's the chemotherapy, and a multi-disciplinary approach to the disease. An estimated 26,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year. And medical experiences like those of Carnell Windley-Ginn are shockingly common. In a new study of 785 women with ovarian cancer, only 10 percent got the recommended treatment in the early stages of the disease.
Older patients are even less likely to get appropriate care than younger ones.
The research suggests that when it comes to ovarian cancer, women need to get doctors who really know how to deal with their particular disease. Otherwise, the results can be disastrous. Her disease recurs, and she dies. Trimble says a doctor may think that cancer hasn't spread, but the only way to be sure is by checking further. He says that's the only sure way to tell which women need chemotherapy, and which do not.