Ovarian cancer · Guide
Ovarian cancer explorer: guide
Show the ovaries within the body, enter the tumour’s side, size, appearance and spread from the report, explain the treatment and share a matching picture sheet.
For patients and families
Look at the picture together
The picture opens with the whole body. Choose Pelvis to see the ovaries on each side of the womb, then Ovary to move close. Abdomen shows the omentum, a fatty apron in front of the bowel, and the lining of the tummy. Drag to turn it and scroll or pinch to zoom.
Show what your team has found
Your clinician can enter which ovary the tumour is in, its size, whether it looks solid or filled with fluid on the scan, and how far it has spread. The front view in the corner shows the womb, tubes and ovaries like a diagram. Shapes are schematic, and spots showing spread are examples, not a copy of your scan.
Things you could ask
“Can you show me where it is?”
“What would the operation remove?”
“Could I still have children?”
Take it home
Ask for a picture sheet with the views you discussed, your team’s explanation, what the ovaries do, where to find help and the words used. A QR code reopens the same model settings on your phone. Names, notes and contact details are never included in that code or saved online.
For clinicians
Start with orientation
The explorer adds the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, cervix and vagina from the womb explorer, the bladder, a schematic omentum and parietal peritoneum, and the shared digestive tract (drawn see-through) to the female pelvis, rectum, sacrum and body from the rectal explorer.
Set up from the report
| Control | What to set |
|---|---|
| Ovary | Right, left or both. With both, the entered size is the larger tumour; the other is drawn smaller as an example. |
| Longest diameter | 10–200 mm. Larger tumours are drawn rising out of the pelvis towards the middle of the abdomen; the summary says the position is approximate. |
| How it looks on the scan | Mostly solid, mostly cystic, or mixed solid and cystic, as described in the report. The model does not score or classify the mass (for example, O-RADS or IOTA). |
| How far it has spread | Only within the ovary or ovaries (as in FIGO stage I), into the pelvis (as in stage II) or onto the peritoneum or omentum (as in stage III), as written by the team. The deposits drawn are illustrative. The model does not assign a stage; nodal and distant spread (stage IV) and ascites are not shown. |
Explain a selected plan
Total abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and omentectomy colours the uterus, cervix, both adnexa and the omentum teal; After surgery shows the closed vaginal vault. Fertility-sparing surgery colours the affected ovary and tube teal (shown for a tumour in one ovary only; staging biopsies and omentectomy are mentioned but not drawn). Debulking (cytoreductive) surgery also marks the drawn deposits. Chemotherapy is systemic, so nothing is coloured teal. Lymphadenectomy, bowel resection, stomas, PARP inhibitors and radiotherapy are not modelled.
Limits
- The tumour shape, deposit sites and omentum are schematic. Borderline tumours, histological type and grade are not represented.
- Lymph nodes, ascites, pleural effusion and distant spread are not shown.
Sources and review
Practising gynaecological oncologist review is still needed for clinical teaching use. Please send corrections through feedback.