According to the American Cancer Society, in 2019 about 22,530 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 13,980 will die from it in the United States. Ovarian cancer ranks fifth among cancers that cause death in women.

Ovarian cancer begins in the ovaries and if it is not detected at an early stage it can spread to the abdomen and pelvis, which can become fatal. There are different ovarian cancer types, such as epithelial tumors and germ cell tumors. Some of the symptoms someone with ovarian cancer may experience are abdominal bloating or swelling, weight loss and discomfort in the pelvis area. Though the causes are unknown, this cancer is most common in women between the ages of 50 and 60, and in women who inherited gene mutations and have a family history of ovarian cancer. Some of the treatments used to treat ovarian cancer are surgery and chemotherapy.

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