### covert cancer:

Ovarian cancer
* Most ovarian cancers are epithelial carcinomas , which begin in the lining of the ovary
  - arise from epithelial cells that make up the external surface of the ovary
  - begin as cysts, or fluid-filled sacs, within the ovary itself
  - develop from the surface of the ovary
* Most ovarian cancers occur after menopause
  - the age of menopause
  - in women over age fifty, but the disease can occur in younger women
* accounts for five percent of cancers among women.
* affects predominantly perimenopausal and postmenopausal women.
* can also result
  - be a devastasting disease
* causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system
  - cancer of the reproductive system
  - female reproductive system cancer
  - reproductive organ cancer
  - female deaths than any other cancer of the reproductive system
* comes from cells of the ovary that grow and divide rapidly
  - that grow and divide uncontrollably
* covert cancer.
* detected by pelvic examination is usually advanced.
* devastating disease.
* disease in which cancerous cells are found in the ovary
  - malignant cells are found in an ovary
* disseminate, primarily by continuity.
* frightening disease and for many women it's a battle for their lives.
* has no symptoms in the early stages
  - the highest mortality rate of all gynecologic cancers
* have no specific signs or symptoms, particularly at the early stage of the disease.
* high profile media issue.
* is almost always fatal.
* is an ovarian mass made up of cancerous cells
  - uncommon disease
  - cancer that begins in the cells that make up the ovaries
  - caused by malignancies that occur in the ovaries
  - curable if found early
* is difficult to detect until it is relatively far advanced
  - diagnose because it often imitates other diseases
  - far less common than breast cancer but potentially more deadly
  - hard to detect and frequently returns after treatment
  - harder to detect and often more deadly than breast cancer
  - known as the silent killer
  - linked to dairy products
* is more common in industrialized nations, with the exception of Japan
  - sexually inactive women
  - multi-genetic, controlled by multiple different gene mutations
  - often fatal
* is one of the deadliest cancers affecting American women today
  - four leading causes of death among women in the United States
  - leading causes of death of the female gynaecologic malignancies
* is one of the most common gynecologic cancers
  - lethal forms of cancer
  - rare
* is the deadliest of all the gynecologic cancers
* is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States
  - most common type of internal organ cancer diagnosed in women
  - fifth-leading cancer cause of death among women
* is the fourth leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States
  - killer among American women
  - most common cancer among women
* is the leading cause of death among all gynecologic cancers
  - from gynecologic cancer in the United States
  - in the United States from gynecologic malignancies
* is the most deadly cancer of the female reproductive system
  - frequent malignancy of the female reproductive organs
* is the most lethal disease in gynecological malignancy
  - gynecological cancer
* is the most lethal of all gynecologic malignancies
  - pelvic malignancies in women because of late diagnosis
  - the female reproductive malignancies
  - serious of all gynecological cancers
  - second most common type of cancer in women
* is the sixth most common cancer among women
* is very difficult to diagnose because there are no early warning signs
* kills more American women each year than all other gynecologic malignancies combined
  - women than all the other gynecologic cancers combined
* malignant growth that develops in a woman's ovaries
  - tumor, or an abnormal growth of cells
* malignant, life-threatening tumor that develops in a woman's ovaries.
* needs that sense of community.
* occurs when cells in the ovary become abnormal and divide without control or order.
* serious and under-recognized threat to women's health.
* spreads most often to the colon , the stomach, and the diaphragm.
* starts in a single cell.