Ovarian Cancer (Diagnostics)

Researchers Working on Tests to Detect Ovarian Cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 18th, 1999

Ovarian cancer is not a disease that gets lots of attention -- no marches or TV ads or "get tested" campaigns. Few women know it is the most lethal type of reproductive cancer. Few even can name the symptoms, so insidious that women may pass off the problem as indigestion until it is too late.

But there are ways women can protect themselves and new discoveries are giving cancer researchers and doctors fresh hope of finding better treatments, or even a test that might catch budding tumors.

Some 27,000 American women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year, and 14,500 will die, according to estimates. While it mostly strikes women over 40,...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1999-01-18)

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