Tiny ovarian tumors can lurk for years

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32178930/ns/health-cancer/

updated 8:30 p.m. ET, Mon., July 27, 2009

WASHINGTON - Tiny ovarian tumors lurk in the Fallopian tubes for an average of four years before they grow large enough to be detected, researchers reported on Monday in a study that explains why diagnosis usually comes too late to save a woman's life.

They said they were trying to find ways to improve testing for the cancer, one of the deadliest because it is so hard to detect before it has spread.
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