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Jul 10, 2025

How One Ovarian Cancer Survivor Turned Her Diagnosis Into a Mission to Save Lives | Heroes Highlights

...diagnosed with primary peritoneal cancer in 2009, which came nearly a decade after she underwent a full hysterectomy following breast cancer and the discovery of a BRCA1 genetic mutation, Jane...

Mar 14, 2013

IP Chemo Shows Survival Benefit

Two studies recently released show a survival benefit for intraperitoneal IP chemotherapy Women with the BRCA1 mutation given IP chemotherapy survived three years longer than those given IV chemotherapy. Read...

Oct 6, 2014

Ovarian Cancer Oncogene Found in ‘Junk DNA’

...long noncoding RNAs, or lncRNAs across 12 cancer types, including ovarian and breast cancers that include the two major BRCA-related cancers. They found that the number of copies of lncRNA...

Oct 30, 2017

New Research Indicates that High Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinomas Originate in the Fallopian Tubes

...of whom also carried other high-risk mutations, such as BRCA or PTEN. “These data provide much-needed insights into the etiology of ovarian cancer and have important implications for prevention, early...

May 22, 2014

FDA Seeking Comments on Olaparib by June 11

...for women with platinum-sensitive relapsed ovarian cancer (including fallopian tube or primary peritoneal) with germline BRCA mutation as detected by an FDA-approved test, who are in response (complete response or...

Jun 18, 2019

Combination Niraparib plus Pembrolizumab Shows Promise

...patients with ovarian carcinoma who have limited treatment options regardless of platinum status, biomarker status, or prior treatment with bevacizumab. Responses in patients without tumor BRCA mutations or non-HRD cancers...

Mar 16, 2020

Blazing New Trails | Meet a Scientist

...She was a fellow and helped to treat Gilda Radner when she had ovarian cancer. Beth was struck by Gilda’s strong family history of cancer, and when the BRCA genes...

Feb 1, 2021

Racial Disparities in Ovarian Cancer are Real

...common in Black women BRCA mutations are not common in Black women Black women are not willing to undergo treatment Black people have less sensitive nerve endings To repeat, the...

Apr 10, 2018

FDA Approves Rucaparib as Maintenance Treatment for Platinum Sensitive Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

...statistically significant difference between the drug and the placebo, regardless of BRCA status. “Both the efficacy and safety results from the ARIEL3 study reinforce the important role of Rubraca (rucaparib)...

Jul 12, 2018

Denmark Study Shows Assisted Reproduction Does Not Increase Risk of Ovarian Cancer

...for her infertility. The biggest risk factors for ovarian cancer are still age and genetic factors, such as BRCA mutations. Dr. Pinborg, a gynecologist in the Fertility Department at Copenhagen...

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