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Health Beat
7/29/2010
Researchers have announce an experimental test for ovarian cancer that's shown great success. The test, that uses antibodies to detect tumor cells in the blood, correctly identified 16 of 17 women who had the cancer. The test was developed by a Belgian company, MabCure which says it also produced no false positives, meaning health women were never diagnosed as having cancer.
The test is important because ovarian cancer symptoms are vague and often missed. If detected early, ovarian cancer can be cured but in more that 70% of women, diagnosis only comes after the disease has become advanced. Ovarian cancer kills 15,000 women in the US each year.
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