DENVER — For Emma Schlamm, it started with a quick twinge of pain on her left side during the pandemic.

“I went to an urgent care, and I said, ‘Can you just check this out?’” she said.

An ultrasound revealed a mass on one of her ovaries — at that point, Emma said she was told it was most likely a benign cyst.

After months of advocating for herself and pushing for tests, she underwent surgery.

“They went in and they removed my entire ovary, then waiting 10 excruciating days for the pathology to come back. They said it was a very rare kind of cancer, and that I would need to remove my other ovary too, and undergo chemotherapy,” she said.

Now, researchers say a simple blood test that can detect early-stage ovarian cancer is on the horizon.

Denver biotech lab AOA Dx has been developing t

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