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Ovarian Cancer is a notorious cancer for only presenting with vague and non-specific symptoms early on in disease progression, revealing more significant symptoms only later stages. This is the reason it is the gynecological cancer with the highest mortality rate. Risk factors for getting ovarian cancer include older age, especially over 50, a family history, certain genetic mutations and other factors related total number of ovulations over the course of life. In this lesson, we discuss the risk factors, the earliest signs and symptoms and later signs and symptoms of Ovarian cancer.

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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6788186
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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK567760
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2914370
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2737766

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