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• Patients with ovarian cancer can present acutely or sub-acutely
• If there is clinical suspicion of malignancy, the evaluation include laboratory work, imaging and surgical exploration for the definite diagnosis
• CBC
• CBP
• Serum biomarkers:
  • CA 125
    • Postmenopausal woman: should be measured
    • Premenopausal woman: should be measured only if US shows highly suspicious malignant mass
  • OVA1
• Serum biomarkers of the germ cell and sex cord-stromal ovarian cancer:
  • • AFP
• ** hCG
• ** LDH
• ** E2
• ** Inhibin
• ** Testost
• ** DHEA
• ** AMH