Is There a Correlation Between Hand Pain and Ovarian Cancer? I Listed Below the Reason I Am Asking.?
While this may sound strange, there is a correlation between hand pain and ovarian cancer. My rheumatologist told me this – he remembered it quite well because he said it was the one question he missed on rheumatology boards! I could not find any other information until I contacted the American Cancer Society, who said the literature bears this out. Meaning, if you have other symptoms, hand pain (as well as carpal tunnel syndrome) can be an indicator of ovarian disease. http://forums.obgyn.net/endo/ENDO.0008/1033.html
Thanks for those who have answered thus far. I am feeling far more energetic then prior to my parathyroid tumor and have only read of the seriousness ovarian cancer. I am fine in or our of pain, honestly my family has pushed me farther for an answer, seeing in me in pain bothers them more then it bothers me. Am I dramatizing it??? well lets just say I am happy have a good family and have no idea when pain is going to make me cry out, it may be just walking across the lawn, going to dinner with family or when I am driving. It isn’t long lasting so I get over it and want to move on but my husband is worried it is something serious.
I cannot find anything at the ACS website about the phenomenon. Or anywhere else on the internet.
A search for rheumotology and hand pain brings up an article that I can’t get into, discussing paraneoplastic processes. There could be a connection there, it it might be to more canceres than just ovarian cancer.
Just because you have a pain in your hand doesn’t automatically mean that anything’s wrong, let alone ovarian cancer specifically. I have hand pain and part of it was due to a rib pressing on nerves, while the rest of it was due to then-undiagnosed fibromyalgia.
I have cancer of the ovary and let me tell you hand pain is not one of them. You might get some tingling if you are going through chemo, but I have never heard of hand pain with ovca. I have this cancer and let me tell you, you do not want it let me assure you. I go in for surgery soon and beforethen living each day is getting harder and I am more fatuiged and tired then ever before. Your rhematoligist is wrong. symptoms of ovca although everyone is different is (this is my symptoms of this) abnormal bleeding, back pains(lower), pain in my ovary, cramping, fatuige, mucaus dishcharge with blood in it, watery blood that is pinkish in colour that is not period related, bladder problems, constipation, bloated stomach, still get hungry but not as much so a bit of a lost appitite. so to be honest with you hand pain is NOT related to OVCA.