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Task Force Recommendations on Ovarian Cancer Highlight Need for Research and a Detection Test, Say Advocates
Washington, DC—On September 10, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated its recommendations on ovarian cancer screening…
Advocate Report: Summer 2012
Advocate Report: Summer 2012 Susan Leighton Summer 2012 was filled with an abundance of advocacy opportunities including the American Association of Cancer Researchers (AACR) Survivor-Scientist Program, the Drug Information Association (DIA) Fellow…
Gene Plays Role in Ovarian Cancer Resistance
08/23/2012 According to a new study published in Cancer Research, Australian researchers have identified a gene that plays a significant role in the development of high-grade serous ovarian cancer tumors becoming resistant to liposomal doxorubicin…
Using Nanoparticles to Shrink Tumors in Mice
08/23/2012 Reported online last week in Science Translational Medicine, researchers at MIT and Harvard used nanoparticles to demonstrate the nanoparticles that target a protein called ID4 can reduce ovarian cancer tumors in mice…
Dose Dense Therapy Appears Beneficial
A study of 637 Japanese women with ovarian, fallopian or primary peritoneal cancer showed that dose dense chemotherapy provided a benefit…
Fertility Drugs Do Not Appear to Cause Ovarian Cancer
A study of approximately 2700 women showed that women who used fertility drugs did not have a higher risk of ovarian cancer, except for women who used fertility drugs and never got pregnant…
Taxane Therapy Does Not Affect Pregnancy
A small retrospective study of women receiving taxane therapy for breast or ovarian cancer while pregnancy showed no statistically significant outcomes in maternal or fetal health…
Ovarian Cancer Screening May be Cost Effective, But Better Biomarkers are Needed
08/09/2012 Research investigating the efficacy of screening women with a two-step screening strategy using CA125 and transvaginal sonogram (TVS) is ongoing, as are efforts to identify better biomarkers to identify the disease…
When Less Is More – Editorial
The L.A. Times published an editorial July 29 summing up years of data showing that aggressively screening and treating people for cancer does not always benefit them…
Ovarian Cancer Patients with Robust Support Networks Live Longer
According to a study of 186 women with ovarian cancer, women with high levels of emotional support lived longer than women without them…
Research Shows Ovarian Cancer Patients with Social Support Live Longer
07/19/2012 Research published July 16th in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows that greater social attachment was associated with a lower likelihood of death for ovarian cancer patients…
More Research Confirms No Link Between Fertility Drugs and Ovarian Cancer Risk
07/18/2012 A study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention this month re-confirms that there is no link between use of fertility drugs and an elevated risk of ovarian cancer…