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Ovarian cancer is often considered a "silent killer" with no readily identifiable symptoms, but new research challenges this view in the hopes of finding more of the deadly malignancies early.

Because there is no effective screening test to identify early-stage ovarian cancer, roughly three out of four patients are diagnosed with late-stage disease, when the chance for a cure is greatly diminished.

Many patients are misdiagnosed before their cancer is found, with vague symptoms such as pelvic pain and abdominal bloating attributed to other causes.

In their latest study, researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine identified the six symptoms most closely associated with ovarian cancer by comparing the clinical histories of women with the disease to those of high-risk women without cancer.

The most common complaints among the cancer patients included:

pelvic pain
abdominal pain
increased abdominal size
abdominal bloating
difficulty eating
feeling full quickly

When any of these symptoms had been present for less than a year and occurred more than 12 days a month, they were considered independently predictive of ovarian cancer risk.

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"The diagnosis of ovarian cancer is complicated by the fact that the disease produces few if any symptoms during the early stages. Non-specific discomfort in the lower abdomen, fullness after eating, or heartburn may be the only symptoms of ovarian cancer before it spreads outside the ovary. Close to 80% of patients with ovarian cancer are not diagnosed until the disease becomes advanced."
(quote from http://www.smile.org.au/cancers/ovarian%20cancer.htm)

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