News tagged with ovarian cancers
Survival rates for cancer rise across Ireland
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Survival rates for cancer are continuing to rise even though the number of cases being diagnosed is increasing, an all-Ireland report launched today reveals.
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Ovarian cancer's specific scent detected by dogs
Jun 26, 2008 |
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Ground-breaking research in the June issue of Integrative Cancer Therapies published by SAGE explored whether ovarian cancer has a scent different from other cancers and whether working dogs could be taught to distinguish it in ...
Study links obesity to elevated risk of ovarian cancer
Jan 05, 2009 |
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A new epidemiological study has found that among women who have never used menopausal hormone therapy, obese women are at an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer compared with women of normal weight. Published in the ...
Platypus link to ovarian cancer
Jun 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide believe our oldest mammalian relative may help us to better understand ovarian cancer.
Ovarian cancers detected early may be less aggressive, questioning effectiveness of screening
Mar 24, 2009 |
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The biology of ovarian cancers discovered at an early stage may render them slower growing and less likely to spread than more aggressive cancers, which typically are discovered in an advanced stage, according to a study ...
Addition of dasatinib to standard chemo cocktail may enhance effect in certain ovarian cancers
Apr 19, 2009 |
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The addition of a chemotherapeutic drug for leukemia to a standard regimen of two other chemotherapy drugs appears to enhance the response of certain ovarian cancers to treatment, according to a pre-clinical study led by ...
Ashkenazi ovarian cancer patients with BRCA mutations live longer than those with normal gene
Jan 02, 2008 |
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Israeli investigators have found that Ashkenazi Jewish women with ovarian cancer who have mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes lived significantly longer than Ashkenazi Jewish ovarian cancer patients without these mutations. ...
Study reveals why certain ovarian cancers develop resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy
Feb 10, 2008 |
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A team of researchers led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified a new mechanism that explains why some recurrent ovarian tumors become resistant to treatment with commonly used platinum-based chemotherapy ...
Ovarian cancer screening not catching early disease
Apr 01, 2009 |
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The only available screening tests for ovarian cancer fail to catch early signs of the disease and often result in unnecessary surgery, said researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer ...
Ovarian cancer subtypes are different diseases: Implications for biomarker studies
Dec 02, 2008 |
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In a new analysis of tissue biomarkers expressed in ovarian cancer samples, published by PLoS Medicine, David Huntsman and his colleagues from Vancouver General Hospital suggest that substantial differences exist between ovaria ...
Dormant cancer cells rely on cellular self-cannibalization to survive
Jan 02, 2009 |
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A single tumor-suppressing gene is a key to understanding, and perhaps killing, dormant ovarian cancer cells that persist after initial treatment only to reawaken years later, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. ...
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