Ovarian cancer victims call for earlier diagnosis

Women dying from ovarian cancer are joining charity campaigners to lobby MPs for better diagnosis of the disease.

Ovarian cancer is the most fatal of gynaecological cancers and kills one female every two hours in the UK.

The survival rate from Ovarian cancer has improved little in the past 30 years, mainly because all too often it is caught too late.

As yet there is no national screening test but a new commercial blood test has just been launched that is more accurate when it comes to catching the disease in it's early stages.

The UK has one of the worst surival rates in Europe with almost four and a half thousand women dying of ovarian cancer each year, more than the total of all road deaths.

The key too improving these odds lies in earlier diagnosis.