An Outlook of Ovarian Cancer among Surgical Ovarian Specimens in Alex-Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki

Abstract

Ovarian cancer is a malignant tumor of the ovary, usually a carcinoma. Ovarian cancer is not readily detected in the early stage, and this is because of the wide ranging pathology and imperfect understanding of its cause. This study was carried out to evaluate the prevalence of ovarian cancer among surgical ovarian specimen in Alex-Ekwueme Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki. Women within related groups such as ages, lifestyle, relationships, and occupation were the perfect subject for this research. Nonetheless, archived block tissue samples from histopathology laboratory were used in this research. (311) three hundred and eleven archived blocks were sectioned and stained Several special stains like haematoxylin and eosin stain, Periodic acid Schiff stain, silver stain were used as diagnostic criterion for histological evaluation of ovarian diseases as they present clear and understandable features which demonstrate the disease conditions in tissue with variance in both benign cases and malignant cases having a better and rapid diagnostic criterion for ascertaining the stages of the disease. Various physical comparative data were further exploited with regards on their predisposing factors to the diseases. The analysis on percentage on how these physical factors interfere to bring about Ovarian diseases were obtained and these predisposing factors display a clear concomitant ratio show the prevalence of ovarian cancer in certain age groups, occupation, marital status, lifestyle, obesity and breastfeeding. Therefore, this research covers a broader range of diagnostic success in ovarian cancer as well as its associated physical risk factors which if considered can lower the occurrences and ameliorate the increasing cases of the disease.