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For my discomfort and my enlarged ovary and how can they know for sure it isnt cancer?

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Biopsy: The only way to make sure is to do a biopsy and have the tissue examined by a pathologist.

Dr Friedlander and another doctor agreed

Answered 6/14/2013

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