Ongoing excessive fatigue Abnormal bleeding Pain during inercourse Ovarian cancer symptoms are often subtle and easily confused with symptoms for other disorders. Frequently, women don't recognize the symptoms, and too often doctors lack sufficient awareness to effectively diagnose the disease. The tragic result is that too many women never have a chance against ovarian cancer.
Ovarian cancer is a serious and under-recognized threat to women's health.
Ovarian cancer, the deadliest of the gynecologic cancers, is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women. Ovarian cancer occurs in 1 in 57 women, up from 1 in 70 women several years ago. An estimated 14,500 American women will die from ovarian cancer in 1999 and more than 25,200 new cases will be diagnosed this year. Ovarian cancer is very treatable when it is detected early, but the vast majority of cases are not diagnosed until it is too late. Ovarian cancer may be difficult to diagnose both because symptoms are vague and easily confused with other diseases, and because there is no reliable, simple to administer screening tool.