A global study of women with ovarian cancer has found that two thirds of women had never heard of the disease, or did not know anything about it before their diagnosis. Although nine out of ten had experienced symptoms prior to diagnosis, fewer than half of those women visited a doctor within a month of… Continue reading Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer Delayed by Woeful Lack of Awareness
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The Life-Saving Ovarian Cancer Treatment Many Patients Still Aren’t Getting
By Sondra Forsyth On January 5th 2006, almost a full decade ago, the National Cancer Institute issued a strongly worded Clinical Advisory alerting the medical field to the importance of “the preferred method of treatment for advanced ovarian cancer”. Yet nearly ten years later, the Advisory has gone largely unheeded. A multi-university study published online… Continue reading The Life-Saving Ovarian Cancer Treatment Many Patients Still Aren’t Getting
Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancers: Moving Toward More Precise Prevention
By NIH Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D. Inherited mutations in the BRCA1 gene and closely related BRCA2 gene account for about 5 to 10 percent of all breast cancers and 15 percent of ovarian cancers [1]. For any given individual, the likelihood that one of these mutations is responsible goes up significantly in the presence… Continue reading Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancers: Moving Toward More Precise Prevention
Personalized Ovarian Cancer Vaccines
Researchers at the University of Connecticut have found a new way to identify protein mutations in cancer cells. The novel method is being used to develop personalized vaccines to treat patients with ovarian cancer. A release from the university quotes Dr. Pramod Srivastava, director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at UConn… Continue reading Personalized Ovarian Cancer Vaccines