malignant ascites

dooder913 · Newbie Joined: 16 Jul 2008 Posts: 1

Does malignant ascites confirm cancer if no tumor is found on scans.

TheGeeze · Posted: 07/20/08 - 16:47 Post subject:

I think the question is rather meaningless since the term malignant implicitly implies cancerous. Ovarian carcinoma is the primary tumour in the majority of cancer patients with malignant ascites. Gastrointestinal tumours play also a substantial role and in one out of five patients suffering from malignant ascites the location of the primary tumour remains unknown (cancer of unknown primary, CUP).

malignant ascites

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