Many women in the US are affected by ovarian cancer and it seems that every year 20000 women get diagnosed with this affection and 15000 women end up dying because of it.

Women must be very attentive at any sign or symptom that could indicate an ovarian cancer. The symptoms generally match with other affections too but if the patient goes at the doctor's for a check-up the doctor will be able to tell whether it is cancer or not.

Some of the key symptoms are abdominal pain or pressure, bloating or swelling, urgent urinating and pelvic discomfort. Some might experience an indigestion that lasts a long time, nausea, the loss of appetite and weight, fatigability, discomfort during sexual intercourse, and even a low back pain.

Diagnosing ovarian cancer can take a lot of time from three to six months because at first the digestive affections have to be eliminated and then the urinary problems too. only if the symptoms persist a lot of time then the doctor would consider the ovarian cancer a possibility.

The causes of the ovarian cancer are not known exactly, some doctors say that one cause is the tissue repair process that starts functioning after the egg is released, and others say that the feminine hormones are guilty for the uncontrollable division of the cells.

The scientists have classified the ovary tumors in three: the epithelial tumors which affect the postmenopausal women; the germ cell tumors who affect young women and the stromal tumors which can be found in the tissue that is responsible with the production of the feminine hormones.

It seems that there are persons which are more exposed to ovarian cancer than others. Persons that have inherited a gene which is responsible with breast cancer or with colon cancer occurrence are exposed to ovarian cancer too. Those who have a family history of ovarian cancer are also at risk of having themselves the disease after some years. Women who are at the menopause and who have never given birth are at risk. Those women that have an ovarian cyst, who suffer of unexplained infertility and who are obese since they were 18 can develop ovarian cancer at a moment in their lives.

The best thing is to pay attention to any malfunctioning of your body and to go for a check-up periodically because ovarian cancer is easier to treat in its early stages and the recuperation of the patient is faster if treatment is applied promptly.