Ovarian Cancer

Findings describe new data in ovarian cancer research

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 15th, 2005

Ovarian cancer research advances have been reported from Canada, the United States and Sweden.

Study 1: Researchers evaluated the demographic and genetic characteristics of patients with borderline ovarian tumors as compared to early invasive ovarian cancer.

The goal of the study was "evaluation whether Jewish founder mutations in BRCA predispose to borderline tumors as they do to early invasive ovarian cancers. All Jewish women with borderline or invasive ovarian tumors, diagnosed over a 5-year period (1994-1999), were identified in the frame of a nationwide epidemiological study on ovarian cancer in Israel," scientists reported in the journal...

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