Ovarian cancer. Early diagnosis and screening.

Late diagnosis is the main reason for the poor outcome of ovarian cancer patients. An attempt to diagnose the disease methods for early diagnosis was recently investigated. The main effort of the study was in finding the role of ultrasonography and CA-125 and their sensitivity and specificity in the screening procedure. The preliminary reports suggest that a mortality study with a large women population has to be done before the usefulness of screening these methods can be established.