Ovarian Cancer (Screening)

Ovarian Cancer Is a Family Disease

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 25th, 1999

The Blanton-Davis Ovarian Cancer Research Program at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is working with families of cancer patients to find ways of detecting disease in an early stage and perhaps preventing it altogether.

Such research in ovarian cancer was among the topics discussed at The Healthy Woman's Symposium hosted by M.D. Anderson, October 21, 1999, in Houston, Texas.

An 80-year-old grandmother of five and great-grandmother of two was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer in 1995. Her daughters have embarked on a cancer prevention campaign for themselves, as well as the other females in their family and their...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1999-10-25)

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