Revolutionary Cancer Vaccine Targets Any Solid Tumors
The method triggers immune responses that inhibit melanoma, triple-negative breast cancer, lung carcinoma, and ovarian cancer ...
Ovarian cancer test may not work on some Black, Native American patients
A new study focusing on the common CA-125 blood test found that some patients were 23 percent less likely to show elevated ...
Two La Jolla women among Assembly honorees for ‘breaking glass ceilings’
Dr. Rebecca Rakow-Penner of UC San Diego is named 77th District Woman of the Year and environmental advocate Jennifer Phelps ...
Blood test for ovarian cancer misses some Black and Native American patients, study finds
A common blood test may miss ovarian cancer in some Black and Native American patients, delaying their treatment, a new study ...
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OSU researchers develop fast-heating nanoparticles to stop ovarian tumors, perhaps destroy other cancer
New magnetic nanoparticles in the shape of a cube sandwiched between two pyramids represent a breakthrough for treating ...
AI shows how drugs affect ovarian cancer cells
In a study on ovarian cancer cells, researchers from Karolinska Institutet demonstrate how the tumor environment influences ...
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When her metastatic ovarian cancer kept returning, proton therapy was a patient’s last hope
Charlotte Elwood was diagnosed with a rare ovarian cancer in 1997 and given six months to live. She received multiple ...
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Ovarian Cancer Test May Miss Black and Native American Patients
Key Takeaways A common blood test may miss ovarian cancer in some racial groupsBlack and Native American women are more ...
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The Health Effects of Ovaries
The ovary is the female gonad, which houses egg cells. Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have, and each egg is ...
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CA-125 Shows Less Accuracy in Black and American Indian Patients with Ovarian Cancer
Researchers examined CA-125 levels at diagnosis, defining them as elevated/borderline or negative/normal in 250,749 patients ...
Health Rounds: Experimental antibiotic kills drug-resistant fungi
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...
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BRCA mutations and Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD) testing in ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer (OC) is the fifth most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide and represents the leading cause of death for gynecological malignancies. Nevertheless, over the last years, ...