beurs EVDS Sofie Van Dorpe: Extracellular vesicles as blood-based biomarker for early stage ovarian cancer Ghent University
Ovarian cancer is a silent killer. Early stage ovarian cancer is difficult to diagnose because most symptoms are subtle and thus of little use in diagnosis. As a result, the diagnosis is rarely made until the cancer spreads and advances to later stages. If diagnosed and treated in an early stage, ovarian cancer is often curable. However, when diagnosed in a late clinical stage, ovarian cancer is associated with a 5-year survival of only 35%. ...