However, as Dr. Jessica Byron, a gynecologist for UA Campus Health, warns, these symptoms are often misleading and could mimic many other afflictions. Byron also cautions that younger women with a hereditary history of ovarian cancer are at a higher risk than those without a family member who had or has the disease. In terms of medical preventative methods, the use of oral contraception for at least five years has been shown to help, Byron said. Paola Werstler, a health educator at the Arizona Cancer Center, sees a healthy lifestyle as an everyday preventative method for ovarian cancer and any other disease. Werstler advised that these basic lifestyle changes can go a long way toward a healthy, disease-free life.
Good health is dependent in a large part on good nutrition and regular physical activity.