The clinical manifestations of advanced ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer often due to the proliferation of intra-abdominal sites involved in a wide variety of different symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or edema, shortness of breath and other symptoms are often mistaken for a medical disease. In the early patients often asymptomatic or have mild symptoms until the tumor growth beyond a certain size beyond the pelvic cavity was found in the advanced stage. The symptoms of ovarian cancer may be due to tumor size, time of occurrence, with or without complications are different.

Late symptoms of ovarian cancer are as follows:

1, abdominal swelling sense, due to the rapid tumor growth in the short term may have abdominal distension, abdominal mass and ascites. Only a small tumor in pelvic examination can be found when the mass gradually grew beyond the pelvis, abdominal mass can be touched.

2, the initial side of occasional lower abdominal discomfort or pain in lower abdomen with a sense of falling.

3, oppression symptoms: When the tumor to the surrounding tissue infiltration or nerve, it can cause abdominal pain, back pain or sciatica, if the oppression of pelvic veins, lower extremity edema can occur; a huge bladder tumors can be oppressive, there are frequent urination, urination difficulty, urinary retention ; oppression of the rectum is difficult stool; oppression of the gastrointestinal tract have gastrointestinal symptoms; oppression of diaphragmatic breathing difficulties may occur and can not lie horizontally.

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4, due to the rapid tumor growth, suffering from malnutrition and physical wasting, forming cachexia.

5, there may be menstrual disorders, vaginal bleeding. Bilateral ovarian cancer if it were damaged, can cause menstrual disorders and amenorrhea, lung metastasis, there may be cough, hemoptysis, pleural effusion; bone metastases can cause localized Juteng metastases. Intestinal metastasis may have blood in the stool, can cause a serious intestinal obstruction.

6, due to a corresponding transfer of cancer symptoms, ovarian cancer seldom causes pain, such as a tumor rupture, bleeding or infection or due to infiltration of adjacent organs of oppression can cause abdominal pain, low back pain. There may be menstrual disorders, vaginal bleeding. Bilateral ovarian cancer if it were damaged, can cause menstrual disorders and amenorrhea, lung metastasis, there may be cough, hemoptysis, pleural effusion; bone metastases can cause localized Juteng metastases. Intestinal metastasis may have blood in the stool, can cause a serious intestinal obstruction.

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