Learn more about how to detect ovarian cancer in its early stages, and about fertility-saving treatments for premenopausal women with early stage ovarian cancer
September 2013. The most popular screening test for ovarian cancer, the CA-125 test, by itself is not a good screening tool for ovarian cancer. When used alone on women with no symptoms or previous history of ovarian cancer, it leads to many false positives. Among women who have already been treated for ovarian cancer once, it doesn’t seem to improve length of quality of life.