Shopping purchases may help spot ovarian cancer

Shopping purchases may help spot ovarian cancer Tracking what shoppers buy, via loyalty-card data, can help spot those with early signs of cancer, doctors who have been running a study say.

Frequent purchases of over-the-counter painkillers and indigestion tablets revealed a higher risk of ovarian cancer, they found.

Ovarian cancer is often diagnosed late.

There is no reliable screening test and the symptoms, such as bloating, can be vague and confused with other common, harmless conditions. BBC News

See also:

• Association Between Purchase of Over-the-Counter Medications and Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis in the Cancer Loyalty Card Study (CLOCS): Observational Case-Control Study (open access) JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 
• Loyalty cards could be used to spot cancer cases sooner, study suggests The Daily Mail