Biological Diversity of Ovarian Cancer Lessens Value of Screening, Duke Cancer Institute Study
Physorg.com -- Cancer prevention experts have long been frustrated by the lack of a meaningful way to screen women for ovarian cancer. It is a relatively rare disease that often progresses with few symptoms until it is too late for potentially curative treatments, and elevated values of the most commonly used biomarker used in screening, CA125, are also related to other disorders.