Ovarian cancer screening: could you recommend it? No
Last December, The Lancet published the final results of the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS) The summary of the study, distributed in advance, was misleading and the exaggeration was translated in news all over the world. This author reviewed the results and highlights that the UKCTOCS is just one more randomised controlled trial demonstrating that screening reduces neither ovarian cancer specific mortality nor all cause mortality.
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