15 symptoms of cancer that women ignore

Of course, some women are just as good at denying themselves as men. “There are people who intentionally ignore symptoms of cancer,” says oncologist Hannah Linden. Linden is a member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. She explains that the reason cancer is sometimes ignored is the culture that cancer is an incurable disease.

Here are fifteen possible cancer symptoms that women can ignore: