While back pain is one of the early symptoms associated with ovarian cancer, it is tragic that ovarian cancer back pain is so often overlooked both by doctors and patients. This is due in part to the view of ovarian cancer that has long been prevalent in the minds of the medical profession and general public. Ovarian cancer has long been known as "The Silent Killer." For ages, the medical profession has been firmly convinced that by the time ovarian cancer symptoms manifest, the disease has progressed to the point where it is no longer curable.

A group of British physicians implemented a study and at the end they concluded that ovarian cancer symptoms did not materialize until the very late stages of the disease. So by the time physicians could identify the disease it had already progressed too far to be contained.