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The finding is significant because currently there are no early detection tests for the disease. Author: Jennifer Austin Updated: 7:30 AM CST February 16, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS Research by the University of Minnesota Medical School has discovered it is possible to detect ovarian cancer through a pap smear.
The finding, published in the journal Clinical Proteomics, is significant because currently there is no early detection test for the disease.
Ovarian cancer is predicted to kill about 13,770 women in the United States this year, according to the American Cancer Society, which estimates women have about a one in 108 chance of dying from the disease. If you could just do a pap test, which is routinely done, you might be able to catch these cases much sooner, said Dr. Amy Skubitz, a professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and director of the university s Ovarian Cancer Early Detection Pro
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