(October 22, 2018) A team at the University of Illinois at Chicago, including OCRA grantee Matthew Dean, PhD, recently discovered the role that cancer cells have on their immediate environment. … Continued
(October 19, 2018) A retroactive study using SEER, or Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results, looked at the trends in ovarian cancer from 1983 to 2012. In almost 3 decades, the … Continued
(October 15, 2018) This month in Nature, researchers from Weill Cornell published a study that helps to explain why the body’s natural immune response struggles to fight back against ovarian … Continued
(October 11, 2018) The BMJ recently published a study from Denmark about the effect that newer birth control pills have on ovarian cancer risk. Researchers focused on two kinds of … Continued
(October 9, 2018) A study, published in JAMA Oncology, followed about 200,000 women over the course of 25 years in order to track their use of analgesics. A little over … Continued
(October 2, 2018) A study by the Mayo Clinic earlier this year aimed to increase the amount of genetic counseling referrals to epithelial ovarian cancer patients by supplying patients with … Continued
(September 21, 2018) In an international collaboration funded in part by OCRFA, published recently in Cell, researchers used proteomics, the large-scale study of proteins, to identify an important indicator for … Continued
(September 19, 2018) Researchers at the University of Washington recently made a breakthrough in identifying and confirming variants of the BRCA1 mutation, a gene mutation that increases a woman’s risk … Continued
(September 14, 2018) A study published in Cell Metabolism explores the use of glycogen by ovarian cancer tumor cells, specifically in an area where metastasis happens quickly, the omentum. The … Continued
(August 30, 2018) Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have found new clues to the origin of high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC). The majority of women who are diagnosed with … Continued
(August 24, 2018) A recent study, published in JAMA Oncology, shed light on non-BRCA gene associations to breast and ovarian cancers. Researchers discovered new genes and confirmed previously existing evidence … Continued
(August 23, 2018) Researchers from Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research recently conducted a study which focused on Medicare Part B recipients, those above the age of 65 or … Continued
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