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Ovarian Cancer Screenings Not Effective, Panel Says

Tests commonly recommended to screen healthy women for ovarian cancer do more harm than good and should not be performed, a panel of medical experts said on Monday.

The screenings — blood tests for a substance linked to cancer andultrasound scans to examine the ovaries — do not lower the death rate from the disease, and they yield many false-positive results that lead to unnecessary operations with high complication rates, the panel said. Read full article.