Getting Ovarian cancer wrong

Ovarian cancer breakthrough

Ovarian cancer is one of the most feared diseases, as it hard to detect and often leads to death.

And efforts to concoct a solution have been futile, as the cure rate has only been bumped up by two percent in the last three decades.

But a research team at McGill appears to have made a breakthrough by learning that the cancer actual begins in the fallopian tubes.

"We were barking the wrong tree. the name we got it wrong, we got the origin of ovarian cancer wrong. We got the test that we should be using for this wrong," said Dr. Lucy Gilbert, the MUHC oncologist who lead the research.

The revelation has led to better screening of the hard-to-detect condition, which is frequently overlooked because its first symptoms appear benign, they include bloating and more frequent urination.