A pre-menopausal friend who had had a hysterectomy a few years ago due to uterine cancer, but ovaries left intact, was last fall very lucky to have a doctor notice a growth on one ovary in a manual exam. What turned out to be ovarian cancer was in an early stage that we hope has been thoroughly cleared with surgery ("overnight menopause", she calls it) and chemo. (Unlike a late mutual friend of ours, whose advanced ovarian cancer was discovered during gall bladder surgery.)

Keep checking!!

~ Becky in Tucson