Initial trials on new ovarian cancer tests exhibit extremely high accuracy

Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 03:28 in Health & Medicine

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have attained very promising results on their initial investigations of a new test for ovarian cancer. Using a new technique involving mass spectrometry of a single drop of blood serum, the test correctly identified women with ovarian cancer in 100 percent of the patients tested. The results can be found online in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention Research...

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