Women undergoing surgery for ovarian cancer ‘needlessly’ - The Times 21st January 2008

Monday, January 21, 2008

Many women are undergoing major surgery unnecessarily because of a lack of ultrasound experts to diagnose ovarian cancer, researchers say. Improving the quality of preoperative ultrasound examinations could lead to a decrease in the number of operations on women with suspected ovarian cancer, as benign tumours may be discovered before surgery.

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