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... Ovarian Cancer Symptoms and Treatment > Criteria to Detect Ovarian Cancer in Asymptomatic Postmenopausal Women .tcheader { background-color:#94ABBE; border-bottom:#003399 solid 1px; border-right:#003399 solid 1px; border-left:#99ccff solid 1px; border-top:#99ccff solid 1px; color:white; font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11px; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing: .5pt; padding:1px; padding-left: 1px; text-decoration:none; display: block; } body{ font-size: 12px; color: #000000; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-top: 4px; margin-left: 4px; } a:link { text-decoration: none; } a:visited { text-decoration: none; } a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } Home Cancer Treatment Ovarian Cancer Symptoms and Treatment Criteria to Detect Ovarian Cancer in Asymptomatic Postmenopausal Women By: Society of Gynecologic Oncologists on Mar 31 2006 08:09:59 Ovarian Cancer DetectionReporting on the largest study of its kind at the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists 37th Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer, researchers presented new criteria for detecting ovarian cancer malignancy in postmenopausal asymptomatic women, 55 to 74 years old.

Utilizing the new criteria, researchers determined that they could accurately predict 93 percent of the advanced ovarian cancers and 87 percent of the early ovarian cancers in asymptomatic women enrolled in an annual screening program and found to have an abnormal screen.The study, "Determining ...

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