Drive to BEAT ovarian cancer
Irish Daily Mirror|May 09, 2023
Know the lifesaving symptoms
SEAN MURPHY
Drive to BEAT ovarian cancer

UP to 80% of women do not know the symptoms of ovarian cancer to monitor, despite it being the fourth most common type of the disease in the Republic of Ireland.

There are 400 new cases every year and 300 annual deaths from the cancer that is dubbed by doctors to be a silent killer.

But a new awareness campaign by the Irish Network for Gynaecological Oncology is raising awareness of the symptoms in a bid to save lives.

The acronym BEAT - bloating, eating difficulties, abdominal pain, toilet changes has been advised to warn women of the symptoms.

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