Not as Silent as We Thought: The Symptoms of Early-Stage Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian cancer represents the most lethal gynecologic malignancy in US women. During training, I was taught that ovarian cancer is a silent killer. Indeed, most cases are diagnosed in women in their 50s or 60s who have advanced disease, and to date, screening for this uncommon but dreaded disease has not been found to reduce ovarian cancer mortality. www.medscape.c...