Silent and also "silent". I had a large tumour removed recently, and that was only luck. I've been complaining about abdominal pain to my doctors for 20 years, and they never even tried to check it out. Just gave me some ibuprophen, and later a bunch of hormones (that probably made it worse. It made the pain increase).
When I say my doctors didn't bother to check, they actually never did. This was discovered in an unrelated setting. It still took around 4 years before it was removed after it was seen and my doctor notified. The main tumor was large enough to involve several organs and I was in constant, intense pain.
I'm pretty sure the main reason so many women die to these types of cancer is that their doctors don't listen when they say they have pain.
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Silent and also "silent". I had a large tumour removed recently, and that was only luck. I've been complaining about abdominal pain to my doctors for 20 years, and they never even tried to check it out. Just gave me some ibuprophen, and later a bunch of hormones (that probably made it worse. It made the pain increase).
When I say my doctors didn't bother to check, they actually never did. This was discovered in an unrelated setting. It still took around 4 years before it was removed after it was seen and my doctor notified. The main tumor was large enough to involve several organs and I was in constant, intense pain.
I'm pretty sure the main reason so many women die to these types of cancer is that their doctors don't listen when they say they have pain.
"Here have some birth control. That doesn't work? Here, have some antipsychotics."
"Also, have some antidepressants, since you are not exuding joy at the moment, and it's probably all in your head anyway"