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Four Australian women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer a day and three will eventually die from the disease. It’s usually diagnosed late, because few women show symptoms until they have advanced cancer.
As a junior doctor in London in the mid-1980s, Ian Jacobs saw women undergo chemo and exhaustive surgery, only to suffer and die from the disease. Detecting it early, he hypothesised, should save lives. So he and his colleagues set out on a decades-long research project to do just this.
But the final trial data, published in The Lancet, deliver a devastating blow to women who had hoped to access an early detection tool, and for the researchers involved.
This isn’t the ovarian cancer story we hoped to bring you, but it’s an important one to tell. If you value our journalism, and hearing directly from researchers, consider making a donation to The Conversation today.
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I was motivated to improve the outcome for women with ovarian cancer by my experience as a junior doctor in London in 1985. But 36 years on, the results aren't what we'd hoped.
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