Several studies have showing women with endometriosis are at risk for endometrioid type and other types of ovarian cancer as they age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Dutch study looked at over 130,000 women with proven endometriosis and evaluated their long term risk of ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The average age of diagnosis of ovarian cancer was 56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What was notable is that even as women aged into menopause, and no longer had specific symptoms of endometriosis their risk was increased. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s important to know there are strategies for reducing the long term risk of ovarian cancer. If you had infertility, a suspicion of endometriosis, or a history of chronic pelvic pain, you may be at increased risk for ovarian cancer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Specifically, you should not skip yearly gynecologic visits, and have on going conversations about what monitoring, or interventions would be right for you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Several studies have showing women with endometriosis are at risk for endometrioid type and other types of ovarian cancer as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-gyno-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}