Arresting Development: Blood Biomarker Patterns May Aid Early Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 09:56
in Health & Medicine
Ovarian cancer is relatively rare, ranking as the eighth-most frequent cancer, but it is the fifth-leading cause of cancer deaths among U.S. women. It is disproportionately deadly because ovarian tumors tend to flourish while producing few obvious symptoms. And no reliable methods exist to detect the cancer at early stages, when treatments are most effective. But this situation may soon change if researchers can extend the promise of a recent study, in which scientists detected ovarian cancer from blood samples with near 100 percent accuracy. [More] Cancer - Ovarian cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Gynecologic