Men can get Ovarian Cancer !

@dottiedodah , I’m sorry to read that you’re going through this. I hope your treatment goes well.

They should stipulate 'Trans men with ovaries' (yes, Women).
I think its insulting to those women going through treatment, those that have lost loved one through this insidious disease and those getting ovaries removed to prevent the disease!

what's wrong with woman and woman who identify differently

this is factually correct without taking the word woman out

Its very important to keep the word women in our language when you are referring to what 99% of females. Woman have had to fight for the right for our medical needs to be taken seriously (along with all our other hard won fights)

According to my local NHS trust, who cannot under any circumstances use the word woman lest it upsets somebody, the information leaflet calls women “people with ovaries’. The cervical and breast cancer leaflets refer to ‘people with breasts’ and ‘people with a cervix’.

Scotland, of course.

Men cannot get ovarian cancer. Women-including those who want to believe that they are a man-can.

Any woman who thinks she can call herself Arthur and that this now means that she cannot get ovarian cancer should really not be leaving the house without her mother.

Did you read the post at all or just decide to come marching in here and be all offended on someone else's behalf about something that wasn't actually said?

She's not complaining about other people with cancer, she's not complaining about any individual at all. She's complaining about a charity's obfuscation of language when explaining something that is actually very simple in order to pander to a tiny minority of the population. HTH.

Also as a cancer survivor myself, cancer doesn't actually switch off our ability to give a shit about things that are smaller than cancer. HTH too.

I don't know if everyone would think about their paternal line when it comes to BRCA genes — it's more common to think about whether mum, grandma and maternal aunties had it.

My paternal aunt died of breast cancer in her 40s and I have often wondered this.

So they haven’t actually said that men can get ovarian cancer, but that anyone with an ovary can.

so in many ways, they’ve dodged answering the question, by giving a reply to a different question. Ie, who can get ovarian cancer.

(although I don’t like the reply, because they haven’t actually answered the question, which is ‘no’)

Unless they are biological females, they cannot get Ovarian cancer.

If they hadn't used the click bait question of can men get ovarian cancer, then the post would have been really useful and informative.

I don't know if everyone would think about their paternal line when it comes to BRCA genes — it's more common to think about whether mum, grandma and maternal aunties had it.

In an odd way it has made me more aware of something I hadn't thought about before. I'm not sure controversy is the best healthcare marketing technique though!

All the best during your treatment OP
🌲(Urgh was meant to be a bouquet 💐 but can't delete for some odd reason)

The solution to this gender woo. Don’t make any charitable donations for a period of time. They will soon start noticing when they can’t pay their over inflated salaries to write this stuff

🙄 0.0.1% Are both with a DSD or VSD

Men have testicles. Men who think they're women might claim to have ovaries. So no, men cannot get ovarian cancer. What an absolute kick in the teeth to sufferers and survivors. Cases of intersex/hermaphrodite are far too rare to even factor in. I'm sorry if that offends anyone on here, but chromosomes don't change. I wish you all the best with your treatment and a full, speedy recovery.

I'm not the one going round having a pity party because some people I don't know have cancer whilst identifying as a different gender to me. Seems I'm not the storm cloud around here. Pretty gross to gatekeep cancer.

How spectacularly rude.

@MrsSunshine2b you might want to consider a name change as it doesn’t really reflect your personality.

That doesn't appear to be ovarian cancer however. Which makes sense given that he hasn't got ovaries.

This!!!!
so stupid. I am BRCA1, watched my mum die of it. Keep this shit away from me

What an absolutely twatty statement. You don’t get to tell op what to be offended by.

Spoken like someone who has absolutely no clue!

Trans-men and some intersex men can get ovarian cancer. In the same way, trans-women can't get ovarian cancer and intersex women without ovaries, or women who have had their ovaries removed, can't get ovarian cancer.

Less controversial would be "people with ovaries can get ovarian cancer." I don't really see why it would concern someone going through ovarian cancer what gender other people with ovarian cancer identify as. It sounds like you have much bigger things to worry about anyway.

Not everyone is aware that men can get breast cancer. Let’s not confuse matters by claiming that men can get ovarian cancer.

Well... it has happened once..

Ovarian Cancer in a Man?
A 72-year-old man presented with left testicular swelling of 2 months' duration. Microscopic examination of tissue from left orchiectomy showed an intratesticular serous papillary cystic tumor with borderline malignancy felt to be histologically identical to the commonly encountered borderline papillary serous tumor of the ovary.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1941439011700629