Ovarian cancer screening and mortality in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS): a randomised controlled trial

Jacobs, Ian J, Menon, Usha, Ryan, Andy, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Burnell, Matthew, Kalsi, Jatinderpal K, Amso, Nazar N, Apostolidou, Sophia, Benjamim, Elizabeth, Cruickshank, Derek, Crump, Danielle N, Davies, Susan K, Dawnay, Anne, Dobbs, Stephen, Fletcher, Gwendolen, Ford, Jeremy, Godfrey, Keith, Gunther, Richard, Habib, Mariam, Hallett, Rachel, Herod, Jonathan, Jenkins, Howard, Karpinskyj, Chloe, Leeson, Simon, Lewis, Sara J, Liston, William R, Lopes, Alberto, Mould, Tim, Murdoch, John, Oram, David, Rabideau, Dustin J, Reynolds, Karina, Scott, Ian, Seif, Mourad W, Sharma, Aarti, Singh, Naveena, Taylor, Julie S., Warburton, Fiona, Widschwendter, Martin, Williamson, Karin, Woolas, Robert, Fallowfield, Lesley, McGuire, Alistair, Campbell, Stuart, Parmar, Mahesh and Skates, Steven J (2015) Ovarian cancer screening and mortality in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS): a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet, 387 (10022). pp. 945-956. ISSN 0140-6736

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Abstract

Ovarian cancer has a poor prognosis, with just 40% of patients surviving 5 years. We designed this trial to establish the effect of early detection by screening on ovarian cancer mortality.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.thelancet.com/
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Authors © CC BY 4.0
Library of Congress subject classification:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine
Sets:	Departments > Social Policy
Project and Funder Information:	Project ID Funder Name Funder ID G9901012 Medical Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000265 G0801228 Medical Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000265 C1479/A2884 Cancer Research UK http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000289 UNSPECIFIED Department of Health http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000276
Date Deposited:	11 Apr 2016 11:19
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/66012/

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