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A non-cancerous growth of the ovaries. Follow-up is sometimes needed to ensure the tumors do not become cancerous.
Your doctor may ask these questions to check for this disease:
Not all tumors require treatment. However, large or painful tumors may require surgery. Tumors that show signs of becoming cancerous also need to be removed.
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Seiji Kanazawa, MD, PHD (Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN))
Dr. Kanazawa graduated from the Niigata University Faculty of Medicine and received his Ph.D. from the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine. He is working on the front line of the General Perinatal Center, including the Tokyo Tama General Medical Center and the National Center for Research in Fertility Medicine, where he provides maternal and fetal care and undertakes clinical research. At Ubie, Dr. Kanazawa has been designing the Ubie AI Symptom Checker and has taken on the role of general obstetrics and gynecology consultation at FMC Tokyo Clinic by providing fetal ultrasound and prenatal consultation.
Kenji Taylor, MD, MSc (Family Medicine, Primary Care)
Dr. Taylor is a Japanese-African American physician who grew up and was educated in the United States but spent a considerable amount of time in Japan as a college student, working professional and now father of three. After graduating from Brown, he worked in finance first before attending medical school at Penn. He then completed a fellowship with the Centers for Disease Control before going on to specialize in Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where he was also a chief resident. After a faculty position at Stanford, he moved with his family to Japan where he continues to see families on a military base outside of Tokyo, teach Japanese residents and serve remotely as a medical director for Roots Community Health Center. He also enjoys editing and writing podcast summaries for Hippo Education.
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.29.24312810v1Guo J, Feng H, Gu X. Association Between Benign Ovarian Tumors and Ovarian Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis of Ten Epidemiological Studies. Front Oncol. 2022 May 12;12:895618. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.895618. PMID: 35646702; PMCID: PMC9133501.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9133501/Palmeiro MM, Cunha TM, Loureiro AL, Esteves G. A rare benign ovarian tumour. BMJ Case Rep. 2016 Mar 1;2016:bcr2015214101. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2015-214101. PMID: 26933186; PMCID: PMC4785449.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4785449/Xiao, F., Zhang, L., Yang, S. et al. Quantitative analysis of the MRI features in the differentiation of benign, borderline, and malignant epithelial ovarian tumors. J Ovarian Res 15, 13 (2022).
https://ovarianresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13048-021-00920-y