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Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

Researchers develop first mouse model

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 10th, 2003

Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers and their colleagues have developed a mouse model of the most prevalent and deadly form of human ovarian cancer - epithelial ovarian cancer.

The mouse model provides a better opportunity to study the cause of ovarian cancer, examine the genes involved, and test preventive, diagnostic and treatment approaches that could be applied to human ovarian cancer.

"These transgenic mice offer us a valuable scientific tool that never before has been available to ovarian cancer researchers," explained Fox Chase Cancer Center's Denise C. Connolly, PhD, corresponding author of the study, which appears in Cancer...

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