A 24-year-old says she 'ignored' her bloating and stomach pain until it got so bad she went to the ER. Doctors diagnosed her with ovarian cancer. - Yahoo! Voices

• A woman, 24, recovered retired she had ovarian crab aft her tummy symptom got truthful atrocious she went to the ER.

• Doctors arranged for an ultrasound scan, which recovered 2 tumors connected Chloe Etheridge's ovaries.

• Etheridge told SWNS that she "ignored" her symptom for months due to the fact that she didn't cognize crab could origin it.

A 24-year-old who "ignored" her bloating and tummy symptom for months was diagnosed with a uncommon benignant of ovarian cancer, according to a report.

Chloe Etheridge, from the UK, initially experienced bloating and abdominal pain successful December 2021. By April 2022, her tummy symptom was truthful atrocious she went to the exigency room, she told the South West News Service.

Doctors arranged an ultrasound scan, which recovered 2 tumors connected her ovaries. One was 7 inches agelong and the different was astir 4 inches long, she told SWNS.

'I don't deliberation young women cognize the symptoms of ovarian cancer'

Three months aboriginal connected July 11 2022, doctors told Etheridge she had germ-cell ovarian cancer, a uncommon benignant of the illness that is typically diagnosed during adolescence, though anyone supra the property of 1 tin get it, according to the National Institutes of Health's Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center.

Generally, radical are diagnosed with ovarian crab aft menopause and it's uncommon successful radical younger than 40 to make the disease, according to the American Cancer Society. It estimates that 19,710 women successful the US volition person a caller diagnosis of ovarian crab successful 2023 and astir 13,270 women volition dice from the disease.

Symptoms of germ-cell ovarian cancer, which affects less than 1,000 radical successful the US, include: a pelvic mass, fever, vaginal bleeding, and abdominal pain, GARD states.

Symptoms of different types of ovarian crab include: symptom successful the pelvis oregon back, bloating, and feeling afloat "too quickly," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Other conditions tin origin those symptoms but "the lone mode to cognize is to spot your doctor, nurse, oregon different healthcare professional," the CDC states.

Etheridge told SWNS that she ignored her symptoms due to the fact that she didn't recognize they could beryllium caused by cancer. "I don't deliberation young women cognize the symptoms of ovarian cancer," she said.

Chemotherapy was 'brutal'

Treatment of ovarian crab depends connected the benignant of crab and however acold it has spread, but includes chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and surgery. Etheridge started chemotherapy the time aft she was diagnosed, for six months.

"It was incredibly brutal. My chemotherapy had 7 antithetic chemic components. The broadside effects were horrendous, I had nausea, fatigue, proceeding nonaccomplishment — I inactive can't perceive immoderate frequencies now," she said.

Etheridge had an cognition connected January 11 to effort to region arsenic overmuch of the tumor arsenic possible.

She told SWNS that the process went "really well," and she is "expected to marque a afloat recovery."

According to the ACS, germ compartment ovarian tumors often person a "good outlook," with much than 90% of radical with the information surviving for much than 5 years aft diagnosis.

Etheridge shared her communicative to rise awareness: "I deliberation for women due to the fact that we person periods, it is assumed that we are meant to unrecorded with symptom but that should not beryllium the case."

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