(May 2, 2017) A study, published in Gynecologic Oncology, revealed the importance of tumor antigen NY-ESO-1 for ovarian cancer patients. This tumor antigen, although not normally found in healthy cells, … Continued
(April 26, 2017) A study recently published in Cancer evaluates the effect that cediranib, a drugs that stops the growth of new blood vessels, has on a patient’s quality of … Continued
(April 25, 2017) Researchers from Roswell Park Cancer Institute used data from 15 different studies that were part of the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, partially funded by OCRFA, to examine … Continued
A study published in Nature Genetics has identified nine new susceptibility loci, or disease-associated alleles, for different epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) histotypes and three susceptibility loci within BRCA1 and 2 … Continued
(April 21, 2017) Endometriosis, a condition where the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus grows outside the uterus, has been found to be associated with an increased risk … Continued
(April 20, 2017) Researchers from the National Cancer Institute assessed trends in the receipt of guideline care and 2-year cause-specific survival for women diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The study included … Continued
(April 7, 2017) A major new study published in Science claims that the reason why many people get cancer is simply just bad luck. It’s normal for people to seek … Continued
(March 28, 2017) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved niraparib (ZEJULA, TESARO, Inc.), poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor, for the maintenance treatment of adult patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian, … Continued
(March 23, 2017) OCRFA staff and volunteers recently attended the Society of Gynecologic Oncology’s (SGO) Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer, held March 11-14, 2017 in Maryland. Every year women’s cancer … Continued
(March 15, 2017) Results from a large study showed that screening for ovarian cancer in high-risk patients led to detection of significantly more early-stage disease as compared with the year … Continued
(March 6, 2017) A team from University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, including OCRFA Scientific Advisory Committee Member Dr. Robert Coleman, published a study in Journal of Clinical Oncology … Continued
(February 7, 2017) An OCRFA funded study, published on January 13, 2017 in Oncotarget, sheds light on EMSY, a gene that researchers at New York University Langone Medical Center now … Continued
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