New detection guidelines for ovarian cancer patients

If you're familiar with ovarian cancer (or suffer from it), did you even know you had that type of cancer before it reached the later stages of its development? For many women, the answer is an emphatic "no."

But, the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition said this week that doctors across the country have finally gave in to patients who complained of cancer symptoms quite a while before they were officially diagnosed.

And, newer guidelines may help that situation in the future. A new type of test has been developed than accurately detected early stage ovarian cancer 57 percent of the time, which gives hope to millions of women who would like to screen themselves for this type of cancer before it's so far along treatment is mitigated (well, to a degree).