US study raises doubts over ovarian cancer tests
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Two methods commonly used to screen women for ovarian cancer may also cause unnecessary surgery, due to the high level of false positive results caused by the tests. So found preliminary data from one of the largest screening trials of its kind - the PLCO Cancer Screening Trial - which was set up by the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1993 to investigate the long-term benefit of cancer screening tests for prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancer (PLCO).