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SUBMITTER: Urban N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3206037 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Urban Nicole N Thorpe Jason D JD Bergan Lindsay A LA Forrest Robin M RM Kampani Archana V AV Scholler Nathalie N O'Briant Kathy C KC Anderson Garnet L GL Cramer Daniel W DW Berg Christine D CD McIntosh Martin W MW Hartge Patricia P Drescher Charles W CW
Journal of the National Cancer Institute 20110914 21
In screening for epithelial ovarian cancer, unnecessary surgery can be reduced by limiting use of transvaginal ultrasound (TVU) to women with increasing CA125 serum levels. Replacing or augmenting TVU with measurement of a serum marker specific for malignancy might further improve screening performance. Serum samples from 112 invasive ovarian cancer patients and 706 matched control subjects from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian trial were used to evaluate human epididymis protein 4 (H ...[more]