BACKGROUND: Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy is the 'gold standard' for preventing tubo-ovarian cancer in women at increased risk. However, when performed in pre-menopausal women, it results in premature menopause and associated detrimen…
Longitudinal CA125 algorithms are the current basis of ovarian cancer screening. We report on longitudinal algorithms incorporating multiple markers. In the multimodal arm of United Kingdom Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (U…
PURPOSE: Cancer screening strategies have commonly adopted single-biomarker thresholds to identify abnormality. We investigated the impact of serial biomarker change interpreted through a risk algorithm on cancer detection rates. PATIENTS …
We thank Ludovisi et al. for their interest in our paper and for undertaking a retrospective analysis of data collected from symptomatic women attending their department for clinical evaluation. The authors note visualization rates of over …
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the validity of self-reported hysterectomy against the gold standard of uterine visualisation using pelvic ultrasound. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (U…
The CA125 biomarker assay plays an important role in the diagnosis and management of primary invasive epithelial ovarian/tubal cancer (iEOC). However, a fundamental problem with CA125 is that it is not cancer-specific and may be elevated in…