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Interview OV49  

Interview OV49

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A Doctor describes the aims of research into screening for ovarian cancer.

 



Because ovarian cancer doesn't cause symptoms until it's reached an advanced stage, a lot of hope has been attached to the possibility of screening for early detection of ovarian cancer, and work on this goes back 20-30 years. The rationale is that if a test can be used which will pick up the cancer when it's confined to the ovary it may be possible to transform the outcome and to successfully treat the patient just by removing the ovaries and the womb without the need for chemotherapy or any other form of treatment. And the survival rates for stage 1 ovarian cancer, that is ovarian cancer which is genuinely confined to one or both ovaries, are over 90% at 5 years after treatment, whereas the overall survival rates for ovarian cancer at present are 30-40%. So if we could pick up the vast majority of women with ovarian cancer with stage 1 disease, it's possible, but not absolutely guaranteed, it's possible that we would transform the outcome for many, many thousands of women.
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