PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - McBee, William C.
AU  - Escobar, Pedro F.
AU  - Falcone, Tommaso
TI  - Which ovarian masses need intervention?
DP  - 2007 Feb 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 149--157
VI  - 74
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/2/149.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/2/149.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2007 Feb 01; 74
AB  - Ovarian cancer is deadly if not detected early, but it is only one of many causes of pelvic masses, which are common. The physician’s job is to determine if a mass is likely to be malignant and needing surgical evaluation. The best predictors of malignancy are a combination of factors that include the patient’s age, family history, menopausal status, symptoms, findings on physical examination and imaging studies, and blood level of the cancer biomarker CA125.