BALTIMORE —

Ovarian cancer is very treatable if caught early, but how do women catch something not easily found?

It used to be thought that ovarian cancer had no real noticeable symptoms. But there are certain red flags that doctors say women need to know.

Dr. Beman Khulpateea, a gynecologic oncologist at The Gynecologic Oncology Center at Mercy Medical Center, told 11 News he usually sees women between their late 40s to mid-60s who report symptoms of ovarian cancer.

Khulpateea listed some of the symptoms women should monitor, as follows.

"One of the ones that's more specific is early satiety. So, feeling full after eating a smaller amount of food, and that's one of those things that it's not a very common thing, but it can be kind of written off to something else," Khulpateea told 11

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