Symptoms Plus Blood Test Boost Ovarian Cancer Detection

lily1984 submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (www.washingtonpost.com)

U.S. researchers boosted the level of early-stage ovarian cancer detection by 20 percent through use of a blood test to detect a tumor marker as well as a woman's report of new-onset symptoms.

Using either test alone only uncovered about 60 percent of early-stage ovarian cancers in a high-risk group of women, while the two techniques together found 80 percent of early-stage tumors, according to finding published Monday in the online version of the journalCancer

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Placebo effect seen in kids during allergy testing

diefish submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.reutershealth.com)

A "placebo effect" can cause a diverse array of symptoms in children when undergoing food allergy testing, according to the results of a study published in the current issue of Allergy. One of these effects is that some patients believe they have had an allergic reaction when they have actually received with the placebo.

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