OVARIAN+CANCER+by+Jae+Young

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=**__OVARIAN CANCER__**=

__**What is Ovarian Cancer?**__
Ovarian Cancer is a disease that fits in the cancer category. Ovarian Cancer starts from the ovaries and happens in a woman's reproductive organ. Ovarian Cancer also happens in animals but the Ovarian Cancer that is mentioned are from the disease that happens in a woman's reproductive organ. Even if Ovarian Cancer does not have an actual causes and preventions. There are possible causes and preventions that sre going to be mentioned further into the wiki.

Each year in the United Kingdom, approximately 6,800 women are diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. Ovarian Cancer is the 5th most common disease for women after breast, bowel, lung and womb cancer. 5 women of 100 women diagnosed with cancer are known to be infected with Ovarian Cancer. Which is 5% of the 100 women who were diagnosed with cancer.

Diagram of the reproductive system of women.

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Scheme_female_reproductive_system-en.svg

**__Vocabulary__**
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fallopian%20tubes
 * Fallopian Tubes** - The slender tubes through which ova pass from the ovaries to the uterus. Fertilization normally takes place in the fallopian tubes.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Ovaries
 * Ovaries** - The female gonad or reproductive gland, in which the ova and the hormones that regulate female secondary sex characteristics develop.

http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=uterus&search=search
 * Uterus** - the enlarged, muscular, expandable portion of the oviduct in which the fertilized ovum implants and develops or rests during prenatal development; the womb of certain mammals.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cervix
 * Cervix** -Any neck-like part, esp. the constricted lower end of the uterus.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vagina
 * Vagina** - The passage leading from the uterus to the vulva in certain female mammals.