New blood test could detect ovarian cancer two years before women are currently diagnosed
The test looks for four proteins released by the most common type of the cancer. Epithelial ovarian cancer kills more than 4,000 women in the UK every year. British scientists analysed the blood of 49 women a year before their diagnosis.
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