'Modern Love' Author’s Story Highlights The Signs Of Ovarian Cancer

In a heart-wrenching essay, author Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned a dating profile for her husband to use after she was gone. Rosenthal was running out of time: She was dying of ovarian cancer, which she was diagnosed with in September 2015. “I’m facing a deadline, in this case, a pressing one,” Rosenthal wrote in the essay, which was published March 3, 2017, in The New York Times. “I need to say this (and say it right) while I have a) your attention, and b) a pulse.” The essay is devoted to praising her husband’s sweetness and charms, but Rosenthal also wrote about her cancer diagnosis. She had gone to the emergency room for abdominal pain that she thought was appendicitis. There, she was shocked to learn that her pain was caused by cancer. [5 Things Women Should Know About Ovarian Cancer] Ovarian cancer, though relatively rare, is one of the deadliest cancers for women. Although it accounts for only about 3 percent of all cancer cases in women, it’s the fifth leading cause of cancer-related death among women, according to the National Cancer Institute. One of the reasons that ovarian cancer is so deadly is that it often goes undetected while it is still in its early stages, before it has spread beyond the ovaries, according to the Mayo Clinic.   In the early stages, in fact, the disease rarely causes any symptoms, the Mayo Clinic says. And although ovarian cancer does cause symptoms in later stages of the disease, those symptoms c...
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