Ovarian Cancer (cont.)
Medical Author:
Robert P Edwards, MD
Coauthor:
Jana M Lee, MD
Coauthor:
Paul Blackburn, DO, FACOEP, FACEP
Medical Editor:
Jerry R. Balentine, DO, FACEP
Jerry R. Balentine, DO, FACEPDr. Balentine received his undergraduate degree from McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. He attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine graduating in1983. He completed his internship at St. Joseph's Hospital in Philadelphia and his Emergency Medicine residency at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx, where he served as chief resident. Medical Editor:
Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD
Medical Editor:
Lee P Shulman, MD
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Ovarian Cancer SymptomsOvarian cancer is difficult to diagnose because symptoms often do not occur until late in the disease. Symptoms do not occur until the tumor has grown large enough to apply pressure to other organs in the abdomen, or until the cancer has spread to remote organs. The symptoms are nonspecific, meaning they could be due to many different conditions. Cancer is not usually the first thing considered in a woman having symptoms. The only early symptom of the disease is menstrual irregularity. Symptoms that come later include the following:
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Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of cancer death from gynecologic tumors in the United States.
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