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Is Breast Tenderness A Symptom Of Ovarian Cancer?
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What Is It?
Ovarian cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the ovaries, the female reproductive organs that produce eggs. Ovarian cancer cells comes from one of three areas in the ovary. Cancer cells forming in the surface layer of the ovary (epithelial carcinoma) are the most common. Cancer cells forming from the egg-producing cells (germ-cell tumors) and from within the supportive tissue around the ovaries (stromal tumors) are less common.
The disease often does not cause any...
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