DIAGNOSTIC METHOD FOR HEALTH CONDITION RELATING TO OVARIAN CANCER AND HEALTH CONDITION RELATING TO RISK OF OVARIAN CANCER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for predicting a health condition indicating the existence of ovarian cancer (OC), concretely, a method for carrying out diagnosis of OC via measurement of a vitamin E isoform and a relating metabolic product for enabling a medical practitioner to determine possibility that a screened patient has been confirmed positive for ovarian cancer or possibility that the patient has a risk of ovarian cancer.SOLUTION: Strength of peculiar small organic molecules called metabolic products in a blood sample from a patient having an undetermined health condition is measured, and the strength is compared with strength observed in a group of healthy individuals and/or strength observed before in a group of individuals who have been confirmed positive for ovarian cancer.