Can chocolate cysts cause cancer?

Occurrence of the inner layer of the uterus in different organs chocolate cyst can lead to various health problems. Is that chocolate cyst turning into cancer?

Chocolate cystinine is one of the most common gynecological problems that draw attention to Neolife Medical Center Woman Diseases and Obstetrician Op. Dr. Gonca Saraç; the disease of women in the reproductive age, defined as the disease is a benign disease of chocolate cystine, but the relationship with ovarian cancer is questioned.

Endometriosis is a condition in the uterus where the tissue (endometrium) forming menstrual bleeding is located at a different point in the body other than the uterus. The appearance of endometriosis in the ovaries results in the formation of chocolate cysts (endometrioma). Often chronic pain and sickness due to infertility; 15 per cent of women in reproductive age, 60 per cent of those living with menstruation and 30 per cent of women with pregnancy problems.

"It is possible that an ovary that forms a chocolate cyst may also develop cancer," says Saraç, indicating that the biggest concern of patients is the possibility of turning into cystic cancer. However, it is not right to say that chocolate cyst is causing cancer. In recent years, research has not found a specific genetic mutation or biological clue for the development of ovarian cancer in patients with chocolate cysts. In other words, there is no causal relationship between the two diseases. Coexistence of chocolate cyst and ovarian cancer may be due to common risk factors (genetic characteristics, environmental factors, etc.). Of the ovarian cancers that have a chocolate cyst problem, especially endometrioid and clear-cell types are more common at 1.32 to 1.9 percent, "he says.

Saddler; a woman's lifetime ovarian cancer risk to be caught is 1 percent, but this ratio; race, socioeconomic status, tumors, place of residence, and the influence of some factors, and these factors lie in the following order:

• Long-term use of birth control pills reduces risk by 40 percent

• Risk of pregnancy completing the day is reduced by 40 percent and the risk gradually decreases in each pregnancy

• The risk is reduced by 50 percent in women who have lost their ovaries and have lost their uterus and / or ovarian ducts

• Cancer does not change the risk of taking one of the ovaries

• Fertility drugs used to stimulate the ovaries can increase this risk

• Having a breast or ovarian cancer story in the family increases the risk of ovarian cancer

• 1 out of every 3 women with positive BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes carry an ovarian cancer risk

• The risk of ovarian cancer increases with age. It reaches its highest in the middle of the 60's. Although ovarian cancer is very rare in young women, 5 out of every 10 000 women under 30 years of age are found.