Norman Swann
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14,464 appearances
150 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Feb 2013
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Ovarian cancer, while much less common, is a nastier tumour which is harder to detect and more difficult to treat.
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Most women with ovarian cancer have no family history and so the tumour comes out of the blue, which is why there's a lot of interest here and overseas to see whether there's a way of screening for ovarian cancer in healthy women
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in the hope of greater cure or survival rates.
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At the moment, women in Australia and overseas are being exposed to marketing campaigns offering them unproven screening tests, which are potentially harmful.
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Professor Usha Menon leads one of the world's largest trials of ovarian cancer screening.
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She's head of the Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre at University College London.
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So let's just double back.
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Just describe what we know about this disease and its impact.
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widespread cancer.
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Before we get onto the technology and your studies looking at the screening, I hear ovarian cancer experts saying they don't believe that early diagnosis is actually going to make a difference.
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They believe that, in fact, if you can diagnose it early, it's a different disease.
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So they take a fatalistic approach.
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And when you say molecular markers, these are like fingerprints which show they've come from different origins or what have you?
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Now, in Australia, and I think in Britain and America too, you've got companies marketing screening tests.
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They say they've got a molecular marker which picks up this, and if you add their molecular marker to this other molecular marker that's been around called CA125, which does indicate to some extent ovarian cancer, with ultrasound you can build up a picture and get a really good risk score for people.
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Experts in ovarian cancer say this is just rubbish, they're not going to be able to do it and so on.
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Tell me about the studies you've done in this area trying to provide an answer about whether or not these are reliable screening tests.
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And you should just remind people what those symptoms are, because it's partly Australian research which has uncovered it.
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So does it rise?
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So what?
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