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The first edition of this Monograph on Cancer Detection was published by the Inter national Union Against Cancer (U.I.CC) in 1966. TERRACINI - Italy * editorial committee In the preparation of the report the Committee was assisted by Dr. ] OHN WAKEFIELD, a member of the UI.CC Committee on Public Education.

The incidence of ovarian cancer has progressively increased during the past decade, and its mortality rate has followed a similar course. The revers~ is true in cancer of the ovary: diagnosis as a rule is only established late, when dissemination has already occurred, thus making the control of the disease much more difficult.

This monograph is essentially the outcome of corporate endeavour on the part of members of the Committee on Public Education of the International Union against Cancer, from the decision taken in September 1963, via a lengthy and arduous rework ing of the first draft in Philadelphia in 1964 to its final editorial meeting in September 1965.