21.   And unlike with other cancers, including those of the cervix and breast, there is no effective method of screening for ovarian cancer.

22.   Another study indicates estrogen increases the risk of ovarian cancer, and still another shows it decreases the risk of colon cancer.

23.   Another friend said that she stopped looking up her medical problems after she kept discovering that she was either pregnant, menopausal or had ovarian cancer.

24.   Barb Wibbenmeyer received the last of her Taxol treatments for ovarian cancer in March.

25.   Because it is already approved for use in advanced breast cancer and ovarian cancer, doctors can legally use it for early-stage disease as well.

26.   Birth control pills may help women fend off ovarian cancer by reducing the number of times they ovulate, researchers said.

27.   Blood levels of prostasin were about twice as high in samples of malignant cells from ovarian cancer patients as they were in tissue from healthy women.

28.   A promising new blood test that uses a small fat molecule to identify early-stage ovarian cancer is very near testing in women at risk for ovarian tumors.

29.   A means of early detection is much needed, doctors say, because ovarian cancer is usually diagnosed late, and as a result is often fatal.

30.   A recent e-mail urged all women to seek screening for ovarian cancer using a test that, in reality, is not reliable.