Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is one important cause of gynecologic cancer-related death. Currently, the mainstay of ovarian cancer treatment consists of cytoreductive surgery and platinum-based chemotherapy (introduced 30 years ago) but, as the disease is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage, ...
Provides facts about ovarian cancer. Risk factors; Prevention; Protective effects of contraceptive pills; Good prognostics of early detection. INSETS: Are fertility drugs safe?;The ovulation connection.;Beating the odds: One woman's difficult choice....
Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of gynecologic cancer deaths in the U.S., in part because symptoms are often subtle and most tumors elude detection until they are in advanced stages and have spread past the ovaries. While the lifetime risk of developingovarian canceris less than 2% for ...
Don’t rush.If you want to shed some weight after your cancer diagnosis, ask your doctor about the safest way to do that. Losing weight too quickly may be hard on your body just when you need to be at your strongest as you go through treatments....
Knowing your cancer risk and being proactive about your health may help you take steps to lower your risk for getting breast or ovarian cancer, or find it at an early stage. 了解自身患癌症的风险并主动关注健康,可以帮助你采取措施降低患乳腺癌或卵巢癌的风险,或者能在早期发现。
Knowing your cancer risk and being proactive about your health may help you take steps to lower your risk for getting breast or ovarian cancer, or find it at an early stage. 了解自身患癌症的风险并主动关注健康,可以帮助...
Ovarian cancer may be suspected during the examination of the stomach at gynecology. If the cancer is suspected the biopsy of the abdominal cavity is performed and the fluid is analyzed for the presence of the tumor cells. The biopsy in developed European countries is not recommended as it may...
cancer cells and could sensitize ovarian cancer cells to TRAIL treatment, either therapeutically applied or endogenously produced by cells of the immune system... A Brüning,M Vogel,P Burger,... - 《Biochemical & Biophysical Research Communications》 ...
Fewer than half of ovarian cancer patients survive until five years after diagnosis. According to the American Cancer Society, this is because only about one-fifth of ovarian cancer cases are detected early, when the chances of successful treatment and r
Travis Sims, MD, MPH, discusses the impact of homologous recombination deficiency status of clinical and survival outcomes in patients with advanced-stage ovarian cancer. Travis Sims, MD, MPH, a fellow in Gynecologic Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses the ...