What are the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer?
Early ovarian cancer often has no signs or symptoms or vague symptoms. Indications of ovarian cancer may not appear until the later stages of the disease. Several organizations recently have endorsed a set of symptoms that may be early indicators of the disease. These include bloating, abdominal or pelvic pain, feeling full after eating and frequent urges to urinate. If these symptoms occur every day or most days for more than two weeks a woman should consult her gynecologist. Many women do not consider these symptoms serious, which contributes to poor detection of the ovarian cancer in the early stages.