Women with persistent abdominal or pelvic pain, bloating, early satiety, urinary urgency or
frequency, or constitutional symptoms require further investigation. 1 Annual screening in …

Subjective and objective evidence suggest that a third to half of patients developing ovarian
cancer report symptoms at 3 or more months prior to diagnosis. Early ovarian cancer …

The exceedingly low estimated positive predictive values of a positive symptom index in the
study by Rossing et al. is not surprising, given the high frequency of presentation with …

The case for early detection of ovarian cancer remains as compelling as it is challenging.
Early-stage disease is usually curable, but the 22 000 diagnoses that will be made in the …

Ovarian cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer death in American women. While
the prognosis is excellent when the cancer is confined to the ovary, the majority of women …

No clinical guidelines advocate screening. Although monitoring women at high risk with
transvaginal sonography and serum CA-125 testing may be reasonable, poor specificity and …

Ovarian cancer accounts for a minority of female cancers but remains the leading cause of
death from gynaecologic cancers and the fifth leading cause of all cancer-related deaths …

Ovarian cancer is the seventh most common cancer among women globally, with 46%
survival five years after diagnosis. 1 In 2020 there were more than 313,000 new ovarian …

For more than 30 years, investigators have attempted to develop screening strategies for
early detection of ovarian cancer. Given that survival rates for stage I and II disease are 70 …

The women with ovarian cancer reported symptoms [8] of bloating, pelvic or abdominal pain,
difficulty in eating or feeling full quickly, and urinary symptoms of urgency and frequency 20 …