Sensitivity and specificity of multimodal and ultrasound screening for ovarian cancer, and stage distribution of detected cancers: results of the prevalence screen of the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS)

Menon, Usha; Gentry‐Maharaj, Aleksandra; Hallett, Rachel; Ryan, Andy; Burnell, Matthew; Sharma, Aarti; Lewis, Sara; J. Davies, S.; Philpott, Susan; Lopes, Alberto; Godfrey, Keith; Oram, David; Herod, Jonathan; Williamson, Karin; W. Seif, Mourad; Scott, Ian; Mould, Tim; Woolas, Robert; Murdoch, John; Dobbs, Stephen; N. Amso, Nazar; Leeson, Simon; Cruickshank, Derek; McGuire, Alistair; Campbell, Stuart; Fallowfield, Lesley; Singh, Naveena; Dawnay, Anne; J. Skates, Steven; Parmar, Mahesh; Jacobs, Ian

doi:10.1016/s1470-2045(09)70026-9

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Sensitivity and specificity of multimodal and ultrasound screening for ovarian cancer, and stage distribution of detected cancers: results of the prevalence screen of the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS)

Published in The Lancet Oncology • Mar 12, 2009

Authors:

Usha Menon

Aleksandra Gentry‐Maharaj

Rachel Hallett

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer has a high case-fatality ratio, with most women not diagnosed until the disease is in its advanced stages. The United Kingdom Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS) is a randomised controlled trial designed to assess the effect of screening on mortality....

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Medicine

Ovarian cancer

Cancer

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