Category: Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian cancer is hard to detect. Focusing on these 4 symptoms can help with diagnosis
Symptoms that may be due to ovarian cancer:
-persistent abdominal distension (women often refer to this as bloating)
-feeling full shortly after starting to eat and/or loss of
-pelvic or abdominal pain
-needing to urinate urgently or more often.
Endometriosis types and ovarian cancer risk
Researchers found that women with certain types of severe endometriosis are at significantly increased risk of ovarian cancer.
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Ovarian cancer is not a silent killer – recognizing its symptoms could help reduce misdiagnosis and late detection
Ovarian cancer has historically been called a “silent killer,” because clinicians thought its symptoms were undetectable. Patients were often diagnosed so late that doctors thought nothing could be done. But there have been many studies over the past 20 years demonstrating that ovarian cancer does have early warning signs.
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‘Devastated and sad’ after 36 years of research — early detection of ovarian cancer doesn’t save lives
Of all women’s cancers, ovarian cancer has the lowest survival rate
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