A new study conducted at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston indicates that a blood test in combination with an ultrasound exam can lead to earlier detection of ovarian cancer. As there is currently no reliable screening test to detect ovarian cancer, this study, which ran over 11 years and involved 4,000 women, has been deemed "accurate at ruling out...harmful false alarms in postmenopausal women", false positive results requiring invasive surgery which can cause further harm.
Presently, a substantially larger study involving 200,000 women is taking place in the U.K, final results of which are expected by 2015.
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Study mentioned: Lu K, et al. A 2-stage ovarian cancer screening strategy using the Risk of Ovarian Cancer Algorithm (ROCA) identifies early-stage incident cancers and demonstrates high positive predictive value. Cancer 2013 Aug 26; [Online first]
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