What were Gilda Radners ovarian cancer symptoms?

Ovarian cancer is somewhat silent in terms of symptoms. I recommend you visit the Gilda Radner Foundation for a list of symptoms: http://www.ovariancancer.com/info.asp....

If you have any sense of having the symptoms, please visit a doctor immediately. If that doctor does not take you seriously, then see another one. Many doctors will treat women like it's all in their head...as if they're just depressed or lonely or some other BS like that.

Ovarian cancer is very hard to detect and will require the doctor to spend a lot of time "feeling around" the abdomen. The doctor most likely will need to explore the abdomen by inserting a hand into both the vagina and rectum. X-rays and MRI's often show nothing, because the ovaries are located deep in the abdomen. Also most ovarian cancers are of the epithelial type--which mean they grow flat like skin. Hence there can be an absence of a large mass or tumor, as many people imagine when the think of cancer.

Be sure to visit the "links" page at the Gilda Radner site. It has an extensive list of additional resources on ovarian cancer: http://www.ovariancancer.com/links.asp.... There's a lot of good information online. Source(s): My mother had ovarian cancer. She lived 18 months after diagnosis of stage 3 cancer, so I spent 18 months researching the topic.