What are the symptoms of early leucorrhea of ​​ovarian cancer?

Nowadays, more and more women suffer from gynecological tumors, such as ovarian cancer. The threat these tumors pose to women's lives cannot be ignored. If the symptoms of ovarian cancer can be detected in the early stages and treated in time, the disease can be well controlled. The early symptoms of ovarian cancer include less menstruation or even amenorrhea, as well as sex hormone disorders, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, and edema of the vulva and lower limbs.

Early symptoms of ovarian cancer

1. Oligomenorrhea or amenorrhea: Most ovarian cancer patients have basically no changes in menstruation. As the tumor grows, cancer cells will destroy the normal ovarian tissue, leading to ovarian dysfunction, causing oligomenorrhea or amenorrhea. This is an early symptom of ovarian cancer, but it is not very obvious.

2. Sex hormone disorder: This is a typical early symptom of ovarian cancer. The pathological types of ovarian cancer are complex and varied. When some tumors secrete excessive estrogen, it can cause precocious puberty, menstrual disorders, or postmenopausal vaginal bleeding. If it is testicular blastoma, it will produce too much androgen and show signs of masculinization.

3. Gastrointestinal symptoms: If menopausal women often feel bloating and loss of appetite, and no gastrointestinal disease is found after examination by the gastroenterology department, they need to go to the gynecology department for treatment. Because ovarian tumors can compress and stretch the surrounding ligaments, coupled with the stimulation of ascites, gastrointestinal symptoms often occur.

4. Edema of the vulva and lower limbs: As the ovarian cancer grows, the pelvic veins are compressed, resulting in poor blood flow and obstruction of lymphatic return, causing edema of the vulva and lower limbs. This is not only an early symptom of ovarian cancer, but may also be a reaction to other diseases.

Advanced symptoms of ovarian cancer

① Lower abdominal discomfort or pelvic prolapse, which may be accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms such as poor appetite, nausea, and stomach discomfort.

② Abdominal distension. Ascites may occur even in the early clinical stages of ovarian cancer, or the tumor may grow beyond the pelvic cavity and a lump may be felt in the abdomen.

③ Compression syndrome: Patients with a mass accompanied by ascites may suffer from compression symptoms in addition to abdominal distension. For example, elevated diaphragm may cause dyspnea, inability to lie flat, and palpitations. Increased intra-abdominal pressure may affect venous return in the lower limbs, causing edema of the abdominal wall and lower limbs. Tumor compression of the bladder and rectum may cause dysuria, anal distension, and changes in stool.

④ Pain: Ovarian malignant tumors rarely cause pain. However, if the tumor ruptures, bleeds and/or becomes infected, or if it infiltrates and compresses adjacent organs, it may cause abdominal pain, back pain, etc.

⑤ Due to the rapid growth of the tumor, malnutrition and physical exhaustion of the patient, the patient will show signs of anemia, weight loss and cachexia, which are often late symptoms of ovarian malignant tumors.

⑥ Menstrual disorders and endocrine symptoms: The stromal components of the tumor produce hormones or the tumor destroys both ovaries, which can lead to menstrual disorders or vaginal bleeding. Functional ovarian malignancies such as granulosa cell tumors can produce excessive estrogen and cause precocious puberty. Testicular blastomas can produce excessive androgens and cause masculinization. Clinically, irregular vaginal bleeding or postmenopausal vaginal bleeding will appear. In addition to being related to the ovarian malignancy itself, vaginal bleeding is often accompanied by endometrial lesions such as endometrial hyperplasia or endometrial cancer.

⑦ Corresponding symptoms caused by metastasis: such as dry cough, hemoptysis, pleural effusion and dyspnea caused by lung metastasis; bone metastasis can cause severe pain in the local area of ​​the metastatic lesion, with obvious local tenderness points; intestinal metastasis may cause deformed stools and bloody stools, and in severe cases, death due to irreversible intestinal obstruction.