Mayo Clinic researchers use biobanking tissue to better characterize ovarian cancer origins

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Little is known about what causes ovarian cancer, and there is no way to detect it early. Now, an accidental finding in a 22-year-old patient has given Mayo Clinic researchers a new lead. 

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