Two dogs at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Vet Working Dog Center are learning how to smell tissue that is in early stages of ovarian cancer. The dogs have been able to smell the cancerous tissue 100% of the time. The dogs are part of an interdisciplinary research project to help scientists discover a chemical footprint that might lead to earlier diagnostic tests. To read the full story and see the pups, click here.
A research team, led by Dr. Ugo Cavallaro and supported by OCRA’s 2019 Collaborative Research Development Grant, made progress toward improving immunotherapies for ovarian cancer. Dr. Frances R. Balkwill, a … Continued
Leaders in the patient advocacy space came together for a wide-ranging study on the often-overlooked challenges faced by caregivers of cancer patients, with Tracy Moore, LCSW, who serves as Ovarian … Continued
A study published in Nature Cancer details how OCRA-funded research has dramatically expanded the impact of DNA and RNA data in the Cancer Genome Atlas and Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia, … Continued
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