Current Management Strategies for Ovarian Cancer

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  June 1, 2007 ;   Aletti, Giovanni D; Gallenberg, Mary M; Cliby, William A; Jatoi, Aminah; Hartmann, Lynn C;   787 words ...Epithelial ovarian cancer originates in the layer of cells that...symptoms. Of the cancers unique to women, ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate. Most...develop new screening approaches for ovarian cancer are a high priority. Optimal treatment of ovarian cancer ...

UCSF Identifies Key Growth Factor In Cancer

Oakland Post;  March 19, 1995 ;   Jeff Armstrong;   295 words ......UCSF Identifies Key Growth Factor In Cancer. University...identifying a key growth factor in the development...vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) as a key player in tumor growth in ovarian cancer. VEGF is a protein...angiogenesis. In ovarian ...

Elevated Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 in Women With Malignant Ovarian...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  June 1, 2005 ;   Tebben, Peter J; Kalli, Kimberly R; Cliby, William A; Hartmann, Lynn C; Et al;   787 words ......determine whether fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) concentrations...tumors, 14 with early-stage ovarian cancer, and 13 with advanced-stage...tissue staining in malignant ovarian cancer cells. CONCLUSION...assay; FGF2 = fibroblast growth factor 2; FGF23 = fibroblast ...

Yew drugs show their mettle. (study indicates taxol more effective than...

Science News;  May 29, 1993 ;   Pennisi, Elizabeth;   361 words ......that taxol can cause remission of breast and ovarian tumors unresponsive to other drugs (SN: 2/22...p.244). Now, researchers are finding that for ovarian cancer, taxol works better than the standard drug treatment. In a study involving 388 women with ovarian cancer, tumor tissue shrank or ...

Ovarian cancer screening.(Science in brief)(Brief Article)

Chemistry and Industry;  June 6, 2005 ;     111 words ......help screen patients for early stage ovarian cancer. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine...prolactin, osteopontin and insulin-type growth factor II. If a woman has elevated levels...biomarkers, then it is likely that she has ovarian cancer (PNAS 2005, 102, ...

Ovarian cancer strikes one in 68 women: Now experts agree on a set of...

Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK);  August 2, 2007 ;     787 words ......an estimated 15,000 Americans die of ovarian cancer, where malignant cells are found in...organs, the ovaries. For a long time, ovarian cancer was called the silent killer because...poor. Almost 70 percent of women with ovarian cancer are not diagnosed until the disease...

Dr. Gloria; Ovarian cancer

New Pittsburgh Courier;  August 31, 2005 ;   Anonymous;   474 words ...Last week I received an e-mail on ovarian cancer from a friend. I was asked to pass...California. I inquired about the test for ovarian cancer, CA-125, which was mentioned in the...My daughter sent me a Web site on ovarian cancer published by Johns Hopkins University...

Exercise may increase ovarian cancer risk.

Nutrition Health Review;  June 22, 2006 ;     448 words ......Previous research on ovarian cancer has had mixed results...waistline, can increase ovarian cancer risk, and physical...might help prevent ovarian cancer by regulating hormone and growth factor levels; enhancing...which increases ovarian cancer risk. ...

Ovarian Cancer: Ending the Epidemic of "Silence".

The Network News;  September 1, 2000 ;   Boyd, Nicole Cozier;   565 words ......23, 100 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year. During this same time period...rate is only 25 percent. Rarely is ovarian cancer detected in the early stage, when the...are so many women diagnosed so late? Ovarian cancer has commonly been referred to as the...

The medical-surgical nurse's guide to ovarian cancer: Part I.(Cancer:...

MedSurg Nursing;  August 1, 2007 ;   Bohnenkamp, Susan LeBaron, Virginia Yoder, Linda H.;   787 words ......Caring and Conquering column highlights ovarian cancer. The need for this column was brought...dear friend of mine died recently from ovarian cancer and it was clear that more information...courage during a 2-year struggle with ovarian cancer. --Linda H. Yoder Ovarian ...

New hope for ovarian cancer: cutting-edge research into new treatments and...

Women's Health Advisor;  December 1, 2006 ;     787 words ...Ovarian cancer is the deadliest of gynecologic cancers. This year in the United States, ovarian cancer will strike an estimated 20,180 women...significantly change the therapy of ovarian cancer, says Dr. Caputo. In addition, there...

Growth factor LPA may be key player in metastatic ovarian...

OB GYN News;  April 1, 2004 ;     405 words ...The growth factor lysophosphatidic acid...lead to metastatic ovarian cancer, Dr. Fishman said...blood of patients with ovarian cancer, including those with...patients with stage II ovarian cancer and 120 of 145 of those...

Multiplexed Proximity Ligation Assays to Profile Putative Plasma...

Clinical Chemistry;  March 1, 2008 ;   Fredriksson, Simon; Horecka, Joe; Brustugun, Odd Terje; Schlingemann, Joerg; Koong, Albert C; Tibshirani, Rob; Davis, Ronald W;   787 words ......biomarkers in pancreatic and ovarian cancer. METHODS: We used 4 panels...and 19 controls and 19 ovarian cancer cases and 20 controls for...antigen, connective tissue growth factor, epidermal growth factor receptor, epithelial cell...galectin-1, insulin-like ...

Survey Shows Awareness and Education Are Key to Early Detection And...

PR Newswire;  August 20, 2003 ;     787 words ......Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- A new, online Ovarian Cancer Awareness Center is now available on...steps and new treatments available for ovarian cancer. The urgent need for this information...confirmed by the latest statistics about ovarian cancer, which is now classified as the fifth...

New York Inventor Develops Ovarian Cancer Treatment Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 25, 2008 ;     324 words ......developed a method of treating ovarian Cancer. According to the U.S. Patent...of a vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) trap antagonist to...mesothelioma, multiple myeloma, ovarian cancer, and melanoma. The invention...of VEGF A and placental growth factor." The ...