‘Devastated and sad’ after 36 years of research — early detection of ovarian cancer doesn’t save lives – UNSW Newsroom

I was motivated to improve the outcome for women with ovarian cancer by my experience as a junior doctor in London in 1985. But 36 years on, the results aren’t what we’d hoped.My colleages and my efforts to develop a screening test for the early detection of ovarian cancer capable of saving lives arrived at a sad moment last week. The final trial results of the research Ive focused on for 36 years, published in The Lancet, found early ovarian cancer detection doesnt save lives.
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