Vers un dépistage possible du cancer de l'ovaire ?

Ovarian cancer is the most lethal of the gynaecological malignancies because this « silent killer » is almost always diagnosed at an advanced stage. Precursor lesions have at least been discovered. This review will describe in details specific features of tubal and ovarian preinvasive lesions and the old and novel techniques that could be used for early detection of ovarian cancer.