Ovarian cancer: Know your body, know your risk
Ovarian cancer is the fourth leading cause of death in American women, with about 22,000 diagnosed and 14,000 dying from the disease each year. September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness month and Mount...
View ArticleCancer-killing virus plus chemotherapy drug might treat recurrent ovarian cancer
In six out of 10 cases, ovarian cancer is diagnosed when the disease is advanced and five-year survival is only 27 percent. A new study suggests that a cancer-killing virus combined with a chemotherapy...
View ArticleNew drug treatment beating ovarian cancer
A new type of intensive chemotherapy is proving highly effective in treating women desperately ill with ovarian cancer, scientists announced today. The pioneering treatment is successful in 80% of...
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Researchers pinpoint two genes that trigger severest form of ovarian cancer
In the battle against ovarian cancer, UNC School of Medicine researchers have created the first mouse model of the worst form of the disease and found a potential route to better treatments and...
View ArticleHope for Early Ovarian Cancer Detection
By Erika Schwartz, M.D It’s been dubbed the “tampon test” — and it may soon prove to be the most reliable form of early detection for ovarian cancer. In a new study, researchers found tumor DNA in...
View ArticleA one-two punch against ovarian cancer
With few symptoms and no screening tests, ovarian cancer can furtively spread before many women even know they have it. And although rare, it can be deadly. Only 1.3 percent of cancers diagnosed...
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Ovarian cancer treatment set to improve following biomarker discovery
Resistance to chemotherapy is a major reason that patients with the most malignant form of ovarian cancer do not have a good chance of survival. Now researchers have discovered a biomarker that should...
View ArticleADAMTS family of genes may be the next ‘thing’ in ovarian cancer treatment
There is the Addams Family. And then there is the ADAMTS family. While one is mindless entertainment, the latter may prove to be a new genetic avenue for designing ovarian cancer treatment. Scientists...
View ArticleScientists find genetic variants key to understanding origins of ovarian cancer
International genome-wide association study also identifies key gene responsible for expressing subtype of ovarian cancer New research by an international team including Keck Medicine of USC scientists...
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Researchers discover how ovarian cancer halts body’s natural defense against...
Ovarian cancer shuts down immune system cells that would otherwise act as a first line of defense against the deadly tumor, Weill Cornell Medical College scientists report. But a therapy that restores...
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