A SIMPLE TEST FOR OVCA

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Not much here, but what little there is certainly is encouraging.  Apparently some smart people in Austria have developed a means to detect OVCA using samples from simple surgical swabs.  Apparently they look for tell-tale signs that certain genes are “methylated”.  No doubt you recall that methylation is one aspect of the epigenetic processes that (mysteriously, at least to me) control which genes are suppressed and which are permitted to function.  Apparently there is something about various aspects of this methylation thing that points to the presence of ovarian cancer – and this can be determined from a simple swab!  As I said previously, not much about the nuts and bolts of this procedure, but it is good to know about it none the less.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2306655-cervical-swabs-could-identify-people-at-high-risk-of-ovarian-cancer/