Ovarian cancer is thought to be a ‘silent killer’ because the symptoms are vague and nonspecific. Check this out for more information on how to detect it:
It is very advisable that women be very perceptive because ovarian cancer is difficult to detect. There is no reliable diagnostic procedure that medical physicians have that can reliably diagnose it. For this reason, the prognosis for women found to have cancer is variable. The prognosis is good for those who identify the cancer early, and it is poor for those who are found to be in the later stages (i.e., Stage 3 or 4). Unfortunately, the only way to be sure of a cancer diagnosis is to perform a biopsy. The problem with biopsy is that the procedure breaches the body’s encapsulation of the cells of the mass. This means that if the growth turns out to be malignant, something must be done immediately because the cells will spread throughout the entire body (as they will be carried around the body by the bloodstream) and will be able to form metastases.
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