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Protein could be marker of early ovarian cancer. (Blood test).
SAN FRANCISCO--Early ovarian cancer might be detectable with a blood test.
Dr. Bin Ye reported a case-control study of 99 patients with ovarian cancer and 201 age-matched controls at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. The hemoglobin-binding protein haptoglobin-[alpha] was elevated in the sera of women with all histologic types of ovarian cancer.
Further analysis showed that the protein identified ovarian cancer with 82% sensitivity and 83% specificity, said Dr. Ye, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Dr. Ye and colleagues used liquid chromatography mass spectroscopy, and the ...
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