What to do if ovarian cancer is diagnosed during pregnancy

Ovarian cancer is a very scary malignant tumor. This is mainly due to the high mortality rate of ovarian cancer. So what should women do if they find out they have ovarian cancer during pregnancy? Because the early symptoms of ovarian cancer are very similar to pregnancy reactions, it is not easy to detect and will affect the control of the disease. Let's take a closer look:

Pregnancy complicated by ovarian cancer usually occurs when the tumor develops first and then the pregnancy. However, most patients do not have obvious symptoms before pregnancy, and even after pregnancy, there are generally no symptoms. Most of them are accidentally discovered during the first prenatal check-up after pregnancy or during artificial abortion. What impact will ovarian cancer have on pregnancy?
1. Infertility: Reports show that the infertility rate of patients with ovarian cancer can be as high as 40%, because ovarian cancer can affect ovarian function. When the tumor is large, it will compress the fallopian tubes and cause blockage of the fallopian tubes, which will affect conception.
2. Miscarriage or premature birth: When the ovarian tumor is large, it squeezes the uterus and fetus and causes abnormal fetal position, resulting in miscarriage or premature birth?
3. Abnormal delivery

When the ovarian tumor is large, it may squeeze and cause abnormal fetal position, affecting normal delivery? In addition, when the tumor pedicle is too long, the tumor may fall into the uterine rectal fossa and become incarcerated, resulting in obstruction of fetal birth and dystocia?
4. Impact on the fetus: Ovarian tumors themselves have no obvious adverse effects on the fetus, but when complications occur, such as tumor pedicle twisting or rupture requiring surgical treatment, or when the tumor is malignant ovarian cancer and requires radiotherapy and chemotherapy, it will have an impact on the fetus. In order to save the life of the pregnant woman, the fetus may even have to be abandoned when treating malignant tumors. If the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy can be effectively alleviated, the chances of mother and child being safe will be much greater.
For chemotherapy, patients usually experience a decrease in white blood cell count about 2 weeks after the start of chemotherapy. Patients should pay attention to actively taking conditioning measures and preparing for white blood cell-raising treatment. For those with a mild decrease in white blood cell count, biological selenium supplementation can be performed depending on the condition, mainly through the use of Selenium Weikang chewable tablets. Elemental selenium can effectively repair the patient's damaged cells, participate in human metabolism, and effectively degrade the side effect of chemotherapy, bone marrow suppression, fundamentally alleviating the low white blood cell count. Usually, selenium supplementation for 3 months after chemotherapy can effectively correct the low white blood cell count. If the white blood cell count is severely low, white blood cell-raising treatment can be performed as appropriate.

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