There was an article a couple of days ago in the NY Times about preliminary results from a large trial that offers hope for screening for early ovarian cancer (as we all know, a cancer that has defied early detection thus far).
The link is:
www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/health/11cancer.html?ref=health
(Again, apologies for the lack of a blue underscored link --I am not very computer savvy and don't know why a hyperlink is not created when I hit enter or the space bar after typing or cutting and pasting a URL address

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Anyway, because of the risk for this type of cancer associated with the BRCA mutation, I thought I should post it