In the United States, 25,500 new cases were detected only in the last year and 17,000 women were killed by this disease. The increase rate risk is indirectly proportionate with the age and pregnancy decrease rates. Lifespan stop risk is about 1.6 percent, and suffering women with problematic genetic heritage or with relatives have a 5 percent risk. Women with the BRCA1 (a gene that is constant suffer mutations and it is usually associated and held responsible for the early stages in the development of breast cancer, this genes being classified as tumor suppressors and manage to maintain genomic integrity) or BRCA2 have unfortunately a more higher risk that measures between 30 percent and 55 percent, depending, of course, on the type of mutation.

As a statistic the ovarian cancer is the fourth leading death cause from cancerous afflictions in women and the leading death cause from gynecological diseases.

Some difficulties in identifying the ovarian cancer come from the fact that the vast majority of cases are classified or associated with abdominal distensions.

Ovarian cancer is known in the medial books for its peculiar non symptomatic early development stages. An early detection would of course will result in a better survival chance , with the presumption that first stage (number I ) and second cancer stage (number II) will in time develop and evolve in to the third and fourth stage cancers, but unfortunately this is not a demonstrated medical fact.

We do not know much about the evolution of the ovarian cancer, its well defined stages and if those can be definitely separated. The majority of ovarian cancer sufferers report just one or two symptoms and most of the times it is related to the abdominal area, pains, discomforts at this level, gas mass,  pains in the lower parts of the back, a constant urinary sensation or stinging urine , diarrhea or constipation, the constant feeling of tiredness and the lack of hunger are just a few of the semi symptomatic states of the affliction , and some, more clear, like an abnormal bleeding from the vaginal area , a discomfort or pelvic pain, or unexpected  weight loss.  In numerous cases there is a fluid buildup also in the abdominal sector.

In 2007, the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, Gynecologic Foundation for Cancerous Afflictions Society and The American Society for Cancer classified the following the prime symptoms of ovarian cancer: Bloating, back and leg pains that increase and intensify over a short period of time, pelvic and abdominal pains, difficulty in eating meals properly, stomach aches and stool problems like diarrhea or constipation, alternative diarrhea and constipation periods, feeling full after a small meal, urinary frequency altered, stinging sensations, pains during sexual intercourse, abnormal vaginal bleeding, irregularity in the menstrual schedule, breathing troubles .

Ovarian cancer was baptized the silent killer because of its peculiar symptoms and the poor chances of remission. But the symptoms stated above are likely to appear in ovarian cancer diseased  women in the general population, so it is better to keep an eye for them.