(October 23, 2018) Olaparib, or Lynparza, was shown to increase progression-free survival (PFS) by almost three years in an ongoing trial known as SOLO-1. The women in the study are … Continued
(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 18, 2018) Longtime OCRA Scientific Advisory Committee member and former grantee Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine—a distinguished lifetime designation that is … 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
(October 1) OCRA’s inaugural Super September shopping event took place on September 27-28 at Pier 17 in Manhattan. Guests enjoyed discount designer shopping, a special musical performance from the hit … Continued
(October 1, 2018) We’re shortening our name, to make it easier to say and easier to write. OCRFA is now Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA). You can find us at … 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
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