According to an online publication on Wednesday in the medical journal, ‘Lancet Oncology’ that with screening women for ovarian cancer enabled doctors to detect the disease almost two years prior, than in ordinary screening routine. Around 100,000 women are killed each year by ovarian cancer.

It has been a continuous search by the Scientists to find ovarian cancer occurrence earlier, which can save almost 90 percent of women. Whereas, currently women are diagnosed after the disease has spread leaving only 30 percent chances of survival.

To conduct the study 200,000 post menopausal women aged 50 to 74 were enrolled covering 2001 to 2005 records from U.K.  Out of these 100,000 women did not receive any screening tests, whereas almost 50,000 underwent blood test screening. In case of finding an abnormality the women then underwent an ultrasound. Rests of the 50,000 women were screened through ultrasound.