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Early detection of ovarian cancer with proteomic patterns
Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020212-02
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Over 80% of ovarian cancers are diagnosed when the disease is at a late stage, with a consequent 5-year survival rate of around only 35%. Therefore new technologies for the detection of early-stage ovarian cancer would be of great benefit. In February 8 online The Lancet, Emanuel Petricoin III and colleagues from the US Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, show that computer-assisted detection of proteomic patterns could help screening for ovarian cancer.
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