media: Fast-track testing helps to find ovarian cancer early (relates to Dove Report/see comment 'pelvic cancer')

Blogger's Note:

this media report relates directly to the Dove Report published (and commentary) in the Lancet Oncology Jan 17th;

search this blog and/or direct link  to the Lancet: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045%2811%2970405-3/fulltext

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" (Dr) Gilbert is also campaigning to change the name of ovarian cancer to "pelvic cancer."
Research over the last decade has shown that most cases of ovarian cancer don't actually begin in the ovaries at all, but in the fallopian tubes. Pre-cancerous cells grow in the tubes and then shed over the surface of the ovaries, where they cause tumours.
By the time the cancer is found in the ovaries, it's already advanced. She says the focus should be on finding the cancer in its earliest stage in the tubes.
"We, for so many years, [kept] looking at the wrong place," she told reporters Thursday.
"Put bluntly, we had the name wrong, the staging wrong, and the diagnostic testing wrong. It is no wonder we have lost so many lives to this disease.""