Table 2. Ovarian cancer symptoms and signs coded in the 30 days prior to CA125 testing.

Symptom/sign	Patients, N (%)
Abdominal pain	11,933 (49.2)
Abdominal distension or bloating	5,686 (23.4)
Change in bowel habit	2,866 (11.8)
Fatigue	1,692 (7.0)
Pelvic pain	1,632 (6.7)
Weight loss	913 (3.8)
Urinary frequency	552 (2.3)
Abdominal or pelvic mass	419 (1.7)
Loss of appetite	113 (0.5)
Urinary urgency	86 (0.4)
Ascites	26 (0.1)

% is the proportion of patients with a given symptom out of the total number of patients who have a coded symptom (N = 24,269). Categories are not mutually exclusive: a patient may have had more than 1 symptom coded.

CA125, cancer antigen 125.