Advanced ovarian cancer may someday be detected with tampons

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Advanced ovarian cancer may someday be detected with tampons

By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) - In a small new study, ovarian cancer cells were detectable on the tampons of some women with advanced stage cancer. ?This is a proof of principle study that certainly needs more work on it before we know how useful it will be,? said Dr. Charles N. Landen Jr. of the University of Virginia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. But it is helpful to know that you can pick up tumor DNA in vaginal secretions, Landen told Reuters Health by phone. ...

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