Once I'm Experiencing Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer, Is It too Late?

Once I'm Experiencing Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer, Is It too Late? (0:45)

Symptoms for ovarian cancer often don't appear until cancer is at an advanced stage. In this video, Nimesh Nagarsheth, MD, a gynecolgic oncologist at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, says there are good treatments for advanced-stage disease.

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Ovarian cancer tends to present an advanced stage disease, stage three and stage four is more common than detecting it early. We're doing a lot to try to find ways to detect ovarian cancer early but because the warning signs are so subtle, we haven't been as successful. So yes most ovarian cancers are diagnosed advanced stage.

That's not too late there's very good treatments out there for advanced stage disease and we do have very good outcomes for our patients.