Ovarian cancer population screening and mortality after long-term follow-up in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS): a randomised controlled trial

Menon, Usha; Gentry‐Maharaj, Aleksandra; Burnell, Matthew; Singh, Naveena; Ryan, Andy; Karpinskyj, Chloe; Carlino, Giulia; Taylor, Julie; Massingham, Susan; Raikou, Maria; Kalsi, Jatinderpal; Woolas, Robert; Manchanda, Ranjit; Arora, Rupali; Casey, Laura; Dawnay, Anne; Dobbs, Stephen; Leeson, Simon; Mould, Tim; W. Seif, Mourad; Sharma, Aarti; Williamson, Karin; Liu, Yiling; Fallowfield, Lesley; McGuire, Alistair; Campbell, Stuart; J. Skates, Steven; Jacobs, Ian; Parmar, Mahesh

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(21)00731-5

Public

Ovarian cancer population screening and mortality after long-term follow-up in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS): a randomised controlled trial

Published in The Lancet • May 12, 2021

Authors:

Usha Menon

Aleksandra Gentry‐Maharaj

Matthew Burnell

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer continues to have a poor prognosis with the majority of women diagnosed with advanced disease. Therefore, we undertook the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS) to determine if population screening can reduce deaths due to the disease. We report on o...

Subject

Medicine

Cancer

Ovarian cancer

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!