Prevention, early detection & interception: 15th biennial ovarian cancer research symposium

This article summarizes the key findings presented in the Prevention, Early Detection, & Interception Session at 15th Biennial Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium organized by the Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer and American Association for Cancer Research on September 20-21st in Seattle, Washington. The wide range of topics covered in this session included prevention, early detection, and its interception in basic science, clinical science, and population science. More specifically, risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in women at high-risk of ovarian cancer, biology of early progression, mechanisms involved in the transition from precursor lesion to high grade serous ovarian cancer, population-based studies on prevention, and early detection biomarkers of ovarian cancer were discussed.