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Ovarian cancer deaths not reduced by screening, shows study – Health Europa
A trial of ovarian cancer screening has shown that it did not succeed in reducing ovarian cancer deaths, despite one of the methods detecting cancer at an earlier…
The large-scale, randomised UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS) looking at annual screening for ovarian cancer, led by researchers at University College London (UCL), has shown that various screening methods did not lead to a reduction in deaths from ovarian cancer.
In the UK, 4,000 women die from ovarian cancer each year, and the disease is not usually diagnosed until it is at a late stage and hard to treat. The trial was designed to test the hypothesis that a reliable…
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