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OCRA Funded Study Aims to Increase Efficacy of PARP Inhibitors

OCRA Funded Study Aims to Increase Efficacy of PARP Inhibitors

(March 20, 2019) The Ovarian Cancer Dream Team, funded in part by OCRA, recently completed a Phase 1b Trial, which combined a PARP inhibitor with an HRR (homologous recombination repair) pathway inhibitor, such as PI3K, in order to increase the efficacy of PARP inhibitors in breast and epithelial ovarian cancers. Phase 1 trials are used … Continued

Action Alert: Tell Congress to Increase OCRP Funding

Action Alert: Tell Congress to Increase OCRP Funding

(March 19, 2019) Congress is considering a $15 million increase for OCRP funding. Urge YOUR Representative to sign the letter to help push this funding through. Deadline is March 25th! Tell Congress to Increase OCRP Funding The Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) is a cutting-edge program housed within the Department of Defense and despite a … Continued

Lymphadenectomy in Ovarian Cancer Patients Can Be Unnecessary

Lymphadenectomy in Ovarian Cancer Patients Can Be Unnecessary

(March 18, 2019) Before the most recent study on the usage of lymphadenectomy, published earlier this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, it was thought that surgically removing clinically negative lymph nodes had a positive effect on the patient’s health. Now, doctors are rethinking that approach. The LION, Lymphadenectomy in Ovarian Neoplasms, trial … Continued

OCRA-Funded Research Indicates that Stem-Like Cells May Be Key to Preventing Recurrence

OCRA-Funded Research Indicates that Stem-Like Cells May Be Key to Preventing Recurrence

(March 15, 2019) Cell Reports recently published a study about a drug that, given in combination with chemotherapy, could greatly increase survival rates of ovarian cancer patients. Researchers, including OCRA grantees Illana Chefetz, PhD and Ronald Buckanovich, MD, PhD, identified a new drug, 673A, that finds and destroys stem-like ovarian cancer cells. Stem-like cells are … Continued

New Therapeutic Approaches for Mucinous Ovarian Cancer

New Therapeutic Approaches for Mucinous Ovarian Cancer

(February 13, 2019) Data from a study conducted by researchers at MD Anderson and Johns Hopkins suggest that an adjuvant gastrointestinal (GI)-based chemotherapy regimen is more beneficial than one that is gynecologic-based in patients with mucinous ovarian cancer. Because mucinous patients don’t typically do particularly well on regimens usually used to treat the more common … Continued

Drugs to Treat Hypertension May Enhance Ovarian Cancer Drugs

Drugs to Treat Hypertension May Enhance Ovarian Cancer Drugs

(January 23, 2019) Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital recently found a correlation between a class of drug used to treat hypertension and longer survival rates in ovarian cancer patients when used with paclitaxel, a drug used to treat ovarian cancer. The antihypertension drug used in a phase II clinical trial, losartan, aids the body in … Continued

OCRA Awards $5.25 Million in Scientific Research Grants for 2019

OCRA Awards $5.25 Million in Scientific Research Grants for 2019

(January 10, 2019) We’re pleased to announce OCRA’s newest research grants of $5.25 million to 23 top scientists at 14 top medical centers. In 2019, with our other ongoing grants and programs, OCRA is investing nearly $9 million in our fight against ovarian cancer. “OCRA invests in medical research to cure ovarian cancer. Scientists need … Continued

OCRA Funded Research Delves Deeper into How PARPi Work

OCRA Funded Research Delves Deeper into How PARPi Work

(December 21, 2018) This month, researchers in Boston published their findings on how PARP inhibitors (PARPi) cause a chain reaction of responses from the tumor and its environment. Study authors, including OCRA grantee Ursula Matulonis, MD, treated BRCA-1 deficient tumors with olaparib, a PARPi, and found that it began both a natural and medically induced … Continued

FDA Approves Olaparib for Frontline Maintenance Treatment in Ovarian Cancer

FDA Approves Olaparib for Frontline Maintenance Treatment in Ovarian Cancer

(December 20, 2018) Earlier this year a phase III clinical trial, known as SOLO-1, showed that frontline olaparib (Lynparza) can reduce the risk of disease progression or death by up to 70% in women with BRCA 1 or 2 positive, advanced stage epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancers. Those included in the study … Continued

Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Recommended for Stage IV Tubo-Ovarian Cancer

Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Recommended for Stage IV Tubo-Ovarian Cancer

(December 7, 2018) A study published last month analyzed two clinical trials that sought to determine the best first step for advanced tubo-ovarian cancers, neoadjuvant chemotherapy or debulking surgery. The two studies, EORTC and CHORUS, had a total of 1,220 participants whose median age was 63 years. Both studies included stage IIIC and stage IV … Continued

Simple Cysts Found by Ultrasound Don’t Require Action

Simple Cysts Found by Ultrasound Don’t Require Action

(November 16, 2018) JAMA Internal Medicine recently published an eleven year study of over 72,000 women that found having a simple ovarian cyst does not increase one’s risk of ovarian cancer. The incidence of ovarian cancer in all age groups in the study was similar to women with normal ovaries. While simple cysts do not … Continued

For Some, Statin Use Can Decrease the Risk of Ovarian Cancer

For Some, Statin Use Can Decrease the Risk of Ovarian Cancer

(November 13, 2018) The International Journal of Cancer recently published a study that explored the use of statins, which reduces one’s lipids, and their effect on ovarian cancer risk. After comparing a group of 2,040 women diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer to a group of 2,100 women without the disease, it was found that statins … Continued

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