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Experts on advanced ovarian cancer give detailed insights on the role of biomarker testing and identify important biomarkers.

September is national ovarian cancer awareness month, and, dr. samadi wanted to tell us what we need to know. it is hard to detect, isn't it? >> yes. absolutely right. if you look at the statistics for ovarian cancer, it is really mind-boggling because you are talking about 22,000 new diagnosis and 15,000 deaths. and this is probably one of the worst cancers we are going to see. and, you think of breast cancer and you have a mammogram for screening and prostate cancer, you have psa and pap smear for cervical cancer, what do we have for ovarian cancer, not much. you can talk about the blood tes...

We will be able to but now we are in big trouble with ovarian cancer. >> jamie: what does it looks like, you may have an ovarian cyst and, a -- doc, i'm trying to get my residency completed. >> you'll be graduating soon! >> dr. colby, actually, it looks like a cyst and it may be a typical, the key to cancer, as david says, it is a typical, not just a round cyst but it has irregularity that makes you want to zero in with a cat scan and a biopsy to figure it out but by the time you get to the ultrasound, as david mentioned, ca-125 is not specific time and by the time you get the ultrasound it ma...