Quarter of women with serous ovarian cancer could get earlier diagnosis – UK study

There is no national screening programme for ovarian cancer in the UK. Instead, there is symptom-triggered testing. Photograph: Chinnapong/Shutterstock

A quarter of women with the most deadly form of ovarian cancer could receive an earlier diagnosis if they were tested and fast-tracked for specialist care, research suggests.

The analysis involved researchers looking at data from the Refining Ovarian Cancer Test accuracy Scores (ROCkeTS) study, which involved 24 hospitals across the UK.