(WASHINGTON, DC) In late December, President Obama signed several spending bills outlining appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010, revealing disappointingly low funding levels for ovarian cancer awareness and research programs. Earlier this year, the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance recommended that … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tumors can not only spread through the body by sending out tiny cells called seeds, but they can re-seed themselves, researchers said in a report on Thursday that may help explain why tumors grow back even after … Continue reading →

Rabiya S. Tuma Ovarian cancer, like most malignancies, is named for the organ from which it arises. At least that was what clinicians and scientists thought. More recently, however, scientists have discovered that some ovarian cancers develop in the fallopian … Continue reading →

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Every year, more than 20-thousand women find out they have ovarian cancer. For almost two-thirds of them, it’s a deadly diagnosis. But unlike other cancers, doctors say yearly screening for ovarian cancer may do … Continue reading →

Molecular Gynecology and Obstetrics Laboratory, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Department of Medical Genetics and Laboratory, University Hospitals Geneva, HUG Bld de la Cluse 30CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women. Ovarian … Continue reading →

Kutluk Oktay,* Ja Yeon Kim, David Barad, and Samir N. Babayev From the Institute for Fertility Preservation, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York Medical College–Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla; and Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of … Continue reading →

A Sioux Falls woman is accusing Johnson and Johnson and two mining companies of failing for decades to warn consumers about a link between ovarian cancer and talcum powder. Deane Berg, 52, applied talc-based body powder to her perineum each … Continue reading →

SG Kamath, N Chen, Y Xiong, R Wenham, S Apte, M Humphrey, J Cragun, and JM Lancaster, Int J Gynecol Cancer, December 1, 2009; 19(9): 1564-9. Divisions of *Gynecologic Surgical Oncology, Cancer Prevention & Control, and Experimental Therapeutics, H. Lee … Continue reading →

M Robyn Andersen, Barbara A Goff, Kimberly A Lowe, Nathalie Scholler, Lindsay Bergan, Charles W Drescher, Pamela Paley, and Nicole Urban Gynecol Oncol, November 27, 2009. Molecular Diagnostics Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA; School of Public … Continue reading →