Women missing signs of ovarian cancer

Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-six February 2010

Only 4 per cent are assured they could mark symptoms of the disease themselves and majority hold it is less usual than cervical cancer.

Some 6,800 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year and 4,500 die from it, 4 times as majority as die from cervical cancer.

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Symptoms embody permanent bloating and stomach pain.

Today"s check of some-more than 1,000 women found that twice as majority (66 per cent) had been since report about cervical cancer as those who had sum on ovarian cancer (33 per cent).

Of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, some-more than half (56 per cent) did not know anything about the disease beforehand.

TV presenter Gaby Roslin is subsidy a new debate by the gift Target Ovarian Cancer called Unzipped.

She said: ""Not sufficient women know about ovarian cancer and there is worry in between it and cervical cancer.

""Make yourself wakeful and see after your ovaries, so that you have the possibility to catch ovarian cancer early and vastly enlarge your possibility of survival.

""Three times as majority women could tarry if it was diagnosed at the beginning probable stage.

""If you continually have worry you do up your trousers and maybe see similar to you could be pregnant, have determined stomach suffering and feel full or have worry eating, it"s majority appropriate to get checked out.

""They are usual symptoms but, when they start on majority days, have your GP wakeful of what is function to you.""

If diagnosed at the beginning stage, up to 90 per cent of women with ovarian cancer can survive.

However, 85 per cent of women will die once the cancer has spread.

Many women with the disease contend their GP unsuccessful to mark it initially, with the majority usual diagnoses being irked bowel set of symptoms and urinary tract infection.

Annwen Jones, arch senior manager of Target Ovarian Cancer, said: ""There is, as yet, no proven screening exam for ovarian cancer, but investigate has identified the majority usual symptoms and shown that they start really often - roughly daily.

""Our investigate tells us that 98 per cent of women do have symptoms, together with those diagnosed at an early stage, but we additionally know that majority women are only not wakeful that what they are feeling could vigilance ovarian cancer.""

The consult comes as the gift and BMJ Learning launch an online apparatus to assistance GPs diagnose ovarian cancer.

It covers signs, symptoms and justification tests, formed on the ultimate evidence.