Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer

Posted on July 15, 2008
Filed Under Cancer, Woman |

Early detection of ovarian cancer, the closer
Early diagnosis of epithelial ovarian cancer significantly reduce the onset of illness and death of this terrible tumor, but it is difficult because no symptoms. Ovarian cancer is three times more deadly breast cancer and is often diagnosed late, when the disease is already in advanced stages, due to the absence of sufficiently sensitive detection methods.

In Brief
A specific blood test could help early diagnosis of this cancer

American researchers from the Nevada Cancer Institute suggested a blood test based on the simultaneous determination of four substances called blood lepton, prolactin, osteopontina growth factor and insulin-like type II, which might discriminate against patients with this type of cancer and without him, including patients diagnosed at stage I and II disease with a high efficiency of 95%, according to research published recently in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Indeed, this magazine published the study entitled Serum protein markers for early detection of ovarian cancer at that point that, although so far been carried out isolated determinations of these substances to try and diagnose ovarian cancer, was not proven identify these 4 proteins together. Their findings confirm that these four proteins were determined simultaneously by using a blood test, one could classify up to 95% of patients in the sense that they have no or ovarian cancer in question.

Thus, it appears that this blood test may help us to diagnose these patients earlier and provide our best medical or surgical treatments.

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