RE: Mucinous Cystadenoma of the Ovary

As the usual nice description of the slides. I recommended your posts to a student that is entering med school and wants to be a pathologist! I think she will learn a lot from them!

From experience, most of the time, we receive these types of specimens when they are large and unbearable to carry because people with financial constraints don’t seek medical care early when the signs do occur. It’s good if it turns out benign but if there are parts within the tumor that shows signs of malignancy, the added cost of chemotherapy just makes things worst. Sometimes if it does turn out malignant, patients would just be contented having it taken out and will try to seek alternative medical treatments (some herbal remedies most likely) because they can’t afford the staple known chemotherapy/radiotherapy.

That is a sad reality in lots of countries. I am not sure where are you are from but It happens a lot in many countries. The Tx usually are very expensive, and if we mention monoclonal antibodies is crazy! At least in my home country Brazil they import all the Mabs so you have the USD conversion plus import taxes in addition to a Tx that is crazy expensive already (not mentioning the social problems within the country). A country's government needs to help its population to access this type of Tx, all the burden can't go to the Pt only.
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