News tagged with ovarian malignancies
New scientific model tracks form of ovarian cancer to origins in fallopian tube
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC), the fifth-deadliest cancer among American women, is thought by many scientists to often be a fallopian tube malignancy masquerading as an ovarian one. While most of the evidence linking ...
Apr 18, 2011 |
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BRCA2 mutations associated with improved survival for ovarian cancer
Women with ovarian cancer who have the BRCA2 gene mutation are more likely to survive the malignancy than women with the BRCA1 mutation, or women without either mutation.
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Peptide being tested to treat atherosclerosis inhibits ovarian cancer growth
A drug in testing to treat atherosclerosis significantly inhibited growth of ovarian cancer in both human cell lines and mouse models, the first such report of a peptide being used to fight malignancies, according to a study ...
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Magnetic Nanoparticles Remove Ovarian Cancer Cells from the Abdominal Cavity
A major complicating factor in the treatment of ovarian cancer is that malignant cells are often shed into the patient’s abdominal cavity. These cells can then spread to other tissues, seeding new tumors that make effective ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 18, 2010 |
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Engineered antibodies directed against a promising therapeutic target on ovarian cancer cells
Stealthy and stubborn, ovarian cancer is a particularly vexing malignancy, difficult to diagnose in early stages and difficult to treat once it progresses further. However, research at Fox Chase Cancer Center is now focusing ...
Apr 19, 2010 |
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Fight-or-flight hormones help tumor cells escape to spread
Chronic stress triggers a chain of molecular events that protects breakaway ovarian cancer cells from destruction, a team of researchers led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports April ...
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Possible ovarian cancer treatment target identified
A multi-institutional study has identified a potential personalized treatment target for the most common form of ovarian cancer. In the December 8 issue of Cancer Cell, the research team describes finding that a gene called ...
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Dietary acrylamide not associated with increased lung cancer risk in men
Dietary acrylamide was not associated with an increased risk of lung cancer, according to data from a large prospective case-cohort study in the April 28 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Angiogenesis linked to poor survival in patients with rare type of ovarian cancer
Researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found that increased angiogenesis, or blood vessel formation, and vascular endothelial growth factor expression are associated with poor survival ...
Feb 05, 2009 |
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