Every year around 20,000 women get ovarian cancer in the United States and yet many are not fully aware of the symptoms.
The symptoms, according to Medline are:
- Heavy feeling in pelvis
- Pain in lower abdomen
- Bleeding from the vagina (especially after menopause)
- Weight gain or loss
- Abnormal periods
- Unexplained back pain that gets worse
- Gas, nausea, vomiting, or loss of appetite
Please get yourselves checked if you have the above symptoms. Also keep in mind that sometimes there are no symptoms at all and that doctors can miss it as well. please protect yourselves and read more about how you can prevent this disease at Medline Plus.