Early detection of ovarian cancer.

Ovarian cancer is not silent. More than 70% of patients with high-risk early-stage, epithelial ovarian cancer present with one or more symptoms. Unfortunately, these symptoms can be non-specific, commonly abdominal or pelvic pain, according to a recent study in Obstetrics & Gynecology (Chan et al).

Rather than dismiss such symptoms, women should trust their own judgement,
Maurie Markman of Cancer Treatment Centers of America has suggested in a Medscape article.

Nobody knows an individual woman's body and physiology better than the woman herself. If a woman has symptoms that are for her unusual, or persist beyond a reasonable time — for example, if she has gastroenteritis that should go away, but doesn't — it's important for her to contact her primary care physician, obstetrician, or gynaecologist for an evaluation.

Here's a link to the article:https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Abstract/2022/02000/Symptoms_of_Women_With_High_Risk_Early_Stage.2.aspx

Here's a link to Dr Markman's commentary: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973776?src=mkm_ret_221207_mscpmrk_Gyno_monthly&uac=27236BJ&impID=4929048
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