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Cancer patient presented with a palpable mass, but was less clear when abdominal distension and pain Symptoms of ovarian cancer: were the presenting features. The patient’s women’s and GP’s experiences personality or consultation behaviour had the Clare Bankhead potential to influence the consultation outcome, CR-UK Primary Care Education Research Group and GPs reported that referral thresholds may be University of Oxford higher for patients who are frequent consulters or Oxford, OX3 7LF have pre-existing conditions. Coauthors: C Collins, H Stokes- Conclusions This study recruited women at the time of Lampard, A Clements, J Austoker, S diagnosis and is less likely to suffer from recall Kehoe and survivor biases than previous research. Introduction Understanding subtleties of language used by This paper describes the way symptoms women in consultations (e.g. bloating or suggestive of ovarian cancer are expressed, enlargement) may improve communication and interpreted and acted upon by women aid earlier diagnosis in primary care. undergoing diagnosis. The GP perspective is also presented. These data are from our larger Future comparative analysis of data from women mixed methods study (qualitative and with and without ovarian cancer may identify quantitative) which aimed to identify diagnostic several discriminatory symptoms which could factors that may http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Family Practice Oxford University Press

Cancer

Family Practice , Volume 22 (suppl_1) – Jul 1, 2005

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Oxford University Press
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0263-2136
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1460-2229
DOI
10.1093/fampract/cmi203
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Abstract

patient presented with a palpable mass, but was less clear when abdominal distension and pain Symptoms of ovarian cancer: were the presenting features. The patient’s women’s and GP’s experiences personality or consultation behaviour had the Clare Bankhead potential to influence the consultation outcome, CR-UK Primary Care Education Research Group and GPs reported that referral thresholds may be University of Oxford higher for patients who are frequent consulters or Oxford, OX3 7LF have pre-existing conditions. Coauthors: C Collins, H Stokes- Conclusions This study recruited women at the time of Lampard, A Clements, J Austoker, S diagnosis and is less likely to suffer from recall Kehoe and survivor biases than previous research. Introduction Understanding subtleties of language used by This paper describes the way symptoms women in consultations (e.g. bloating or suggestive of ovarian cancer are expressed, enlargement) may improve communication and interpreted and acted upon by women aid earlier diagnosis in primary care. undergoing diagnosis. The GP perspective is also presented. These data are from our larger Future comparative analysis of data from women mixed methods study (qualitative and with and without ovarian cancer may identify quantitative) which aimed to identify diagnostic several discriminatory symptoms which could factors that may

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Family PracticeOxford University Press

Published: Jul 1, 2005

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