Ovarian cancer screening
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
National Institutes of Health holding consensus conference April 5-7 on ovarian cancer screening, treatment and follow-up. "Because diagnosis at early stages is difficult, major efforts are underway to identify appropriate screening tests for ovarian cancer," a recent NIH release notes. Also, "minimal-access surgical techniques, specifically laparoscopy, may increase in importance for diagnosing and identifying the stages of cancer"