New screening tool could speed development of ovarian cancer drugs
University of Chicago Medicine researchers have built a model system that uses multiple cell types from patients to rapidly test compounds that could block the early steps in ovarian cancer metastasis....
View ArticleStudy identifies promising drug target in certain breast and ovarian cancers
The Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of the drug olaparib for ovarian cancer patients with inherited mutations in the genes BRCA1 or BRCA2 came as welcome news to the thousands of women...
View ArticleShort-term use of HRT therapy carries increased ovarian cancer risk
Taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for the menopause, even for just a few years, is associated with a significantly increased risk of developing the two most common types of ovarian cancer, a...
View ArticleNew screening tool could speed development of ovarian cancer drugs
Transition state may offer important window of time for treatment
View ArticleNew Therapeutic Strategy Discovered for Ovarian Cancer
PHILADELPHIA - Ovarian cancer is the deadliest of all cancers affecting the female reproductive system with very few effective treatments available. Prognosis is even worse among patients with certain...
View Article‘Patchwork’ ovarian cancer more deadly
The most common type of ovarian cancer is more deadly if it consists of a patchwork of different groups of cells, according to a Cancer Research UK study published today in PLOS Medicine*.
View ArticleAnderson Algorithm increases surgical success with advanced ovarian cancer
Moon Shots Program effort boosts complete resection rates over 86 percent
View ArticleUQ research targets ovarian cancer
Brisbane researchers have developed an antibody drug that attacks cancerous ovarian cells and limits the serious side-effects of traditional treatments.
View ArticleASU researchers search for telltale signs of ovarian cancer
This year, ovarian cancer will claim over 125,000 lives worldwide. The deadly disease remains the fifth leading cause of cancer-related mortality in U.S. women, killing about 15,000 per year.
View ArticlePreventive cancer surgery to remove ovaries and fallopian tubes: Yale experts...
By Karen N. Peart - Two years after actress Angelina Jolie’s preventive double mastectomy, her doctors removed her ovaries and fallopian tubes when a blood test showed early signs of ovarian cancer.
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