How to Prevent and Heal Ovarian Cancer (+10 Tips!)

November 1st, 2022

By Charlene Bollinger

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Ovarian cancer doesn’t get as much airplay as other more common forms of reproductive cancer, like breast and prostate; only about 3 percent of all cancers in women start in the ovaries. Still, 20,000 women each year are diagnosed in the United States alone, and the prognosis can be scary. Ovarian cancer is called the “silent killer” by conventional medicine because it is often not detected until tumors have already metastasized to other organs. There are ways to prevent ovarian cancer as well as support your body in healing it naturally if you have it! Here is everything you need to know to begin to do just that.

Ovarian Cancer 101 

Ovaries are the organs in a woman’s body that make reproductive hormones and also produce eggs. Women have two ovaries, one on either side of the uterus. When tumors form there, they usually come in one of three “types:”

Epithelial tumors | These grow on the outer surface of the ovary. Epithelial tumors are the most common type of ovarian tumor and account for the vast majority of ovarian cancer cases.

Germ cell tumors | These are tumors that start in the cells that produce eggs. They are fairly rare; only about 2 percent of all ovarian cancer is this type.

Stromal tumors | These tumors begin in the connective tissue that makes up the ovary. A very small amount of ovarian cancer cases (only about 1 %) are stromal.

Conventional ovarian cancer therapy usually consists of chemotherapy and surgery. For surgery, a conventional oncologist will typically recommend either a.) a hysterectomy, where the uterus and cervix are removed b.) a unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, where just one ovary and one fallopian tube is removed or c.) an omentectomy, which is the removal of the omentum. The omentum is the tissue that insulates the abdominal organs.

Chemotherapy can be general or targeted for ovarian cancer. A cocktail of cell-killing drugs is administered by injection or taken orally in pill form. Targeted chemo is when specific medication is taken which can identify and attack cancer cells yet do not harm healthy cells. Most pharmaceutical-based targeted chemotherapy treatments may still produce long-lasting side effects, however, including damage to the immune system. Targeted chemo can actually be used in combination with “herbal chemo” substances like curcumin, which can make pharmaceutical chemotherapy more effective.

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