My goodness yes and yes again! I was first diagnosed in 2004, during a standard hysterectomy. Leading up to this I had 5 years of vomiting, unpredictable periods, and bowel issues. I saw multiple doctors of various specialties and had ultrasounds and scans that showed oddities without diagnosis; everyone felt it was diverticulosis until a fibroid was detected and they ordered hysterectomy. Nobody would run CA125 until I was in surgery.

Took chemo and went into remission until 2022. Symptoms started to return in 2016. My CA125 was slowly rising at a steady upward tick, but still considered normal. I was still accessing gynOnc at university cancer center (with an active ovarian cancer specialty and screening program) to report concerns and requesting PET scan which I had never had. PETs were not provided, only CT and medical team continued to reject the concerns of recurrence with diagnosis of IBS.

Fortunately I moved to AZ and new doctors were concerned with rising CA125 that had finally exceeded normal, to 50. Connected with Mayo where PET was immediately ordered to discover metastasis to multiple abdominal locations, and to diaphragm where I had been reporting pain.

This is not a silent cancer, I feel the women are the ones being silenced by standard practitioners and those not highly specialized and laser focused on ovarian cancer symptoms and treatments.