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Ovarian Cancer: Obese And Non-Obese Patients Have Same Overall Survival
December 29, 2008 — A new study showed that when actual body weight was used in chemo dosing for epithelial ovarian cancer, the overall survival is 40 months for non-obese patients and 47 months for obese patients, not ... > full story -
Slamming Brakes On Deadly Ovarian Cancer Cells: Blocking Proteins Coded By Notorious Cancer-Causing Gene
December 15, 2008 — Ovarian cancer cells are "addicted" to a family of proteins produced by the notorious oncogene, MYC, and blocking these Myc proteins halts cell proliferation in the deadliest cancer of the female ... > full story -
Study Supports New Standard Of Treatment For Women With Advanced Ovarian Cancer
December 3, 2008 — Results of a phase III, international randomized clinical trial demonstrate a new standard of care for treating advanced ovarian cancer that significantly reduces side-effects and post-operative ... > full story -
Ovarian Cancer Subtypes Are Different Diseases: Implications For Biomarker Studies
December 1, 2008 — In a new analysis of tissue biomarkers expressed in ovarian cancer samples, published in PLoS Medicine, David Huntsman and his colleagues from Vancouver General Hospital suggest that substantial ... > full story -
How Ovarian Tumors Evade Immune System
December 1, 2008 — Scientists have determined how the characteristic shedding of fatty substances, or lipids, by ovarian tumors allows the cancer to evade the body's immune system, leaving the disease to spread ... > full story -
Cancer Cell 'Bodyguard' Turned Into Killer
November 25, 2008 — If you're a cancer cell, you want a protein called Bcl-2 on your side because it decides if you live or die. It's usually a trusted bodyguard, protecting cancer cells from programmed death and ... > full story -
Tumor Environment Determines Whether The Cellular Process Autophagy Enables Cancer Cells To Live Or Die
November 20, 2008 — Confusingly, the cellular process autophagy (essentially self-eating) has been implicated in both cancer cell death and survival. New insight into this paradox has now been provided by work which ... > full story -
New Platinum-Phosphate Compounds Kill Ovarian Cancer Cells, Other Cancer Cells
November 19, 2008 — A new class of compounds called phosphaplatins can effectively kill ovarian, testicular, head and neck cancer cells with potentially less toxicity than conventional drugs, according to a new study in ... > full story -
Protein Compels Ovarian Cancer Cells To Cannibalize Themselves
November 15, 2008 — A protein known to inhibit the growth of ovarian cancer works in part by forcing cancer cells to eat themselves until they die, researchers report in Cancer ... > full story -
Early Breast Cancer: LHRH Agonists Show Considerable Promise
October 7, 2008 — Women who have had early stage breast cancer surgically removed, and whose tumor cells are stimulated by the hormone estrogen, can benefit from taking luteinizing hormone releasing hormone ... > full story
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