Campaigners call for Scottish Government to act over needless ovarian cancer deaths - The Daily Record

Campaigners call for Scottish Government to act over needless ovarian cancer deaths - The Daily Record

"New research shows woeful symptom awareness among women in Scotland with only one per cent of those surveyed being very confident of noticing a symptom. Across the UK the figure was just three per cent.
And, of the GPs surveyed in Scotland, 86 per cent agreed that updates to Scottish clinical guidelines would support them to diagnose ovarian cancer more effectively.
Now campaigners have called on the Scottish Government top spearhead a national campaign to increase symptom awareness.
In April 2011, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published the first official guidance to GPs in England and Wales about the symptoms, diagnosis and early treatments for ovarian cancer.
The Target Ovarian Cancer Pathfinder Study 2012 found 68 per cent of a UK-wide representative sample of 402 GPs was aware of the NICE guidance.
However, GPs in Scotland will have to wait until later this year for updated guidance from the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network......"

Target Ovarian Cancer can be found online at www.targetovariancancer.org.uk