Monday, July 14, 2008

Symptoms and risk factors of ovarian cancer

Women who has family history of ovarian cancer are at more risk of develop the disease. Age is another bearer for women diagnose with ovarian cancer and it always occur after their menopause periods and most of the case that the women diagnosed with ovarian cancer are women diagnosed in postmenopausal. Other risk factor are women who had trouble in conceiving as studies finds that infertility increases the risk of ovarian cancer. Women who had more then two kids the changes of getting ovarian cancer are very low.

Symptoms of ovarian cancer
at the beginning stage are abdominal pain and urinary incontinence. The pain in the abdomen tend to come and go and even it goes with bad gas. As the disease goes, the women will experience symptoms such as pelvic discomfort and pain. Feel fullness even with very long of eating, swelling in the abdomen and bloating. Going to toilet very frequent. Others symptoms that women may experience are changes in bladder habits, loss of appetite, finding unexpained loss or gain in weight, nausea and unexplained changes in bowel habits, including diarrhea or constipation.

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