Ovarian Cancer
Findings from A. Ashworth and co-researchers advance knowledge in ovarian cancer
Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 24th, 2008
"Advances in surgery and chemotherapy have improved the 5-year survival for patients with epithelial ovarian cancer, but have not impacted on the ultimate rate of cure in a disease that is diagnosed in late stage and that recurs in the majority of patients. ''Omic'' technologies promise to define genetically driven aberrant signaling pathways in malignant cells, provided that bioinformatic expertise can be focused on a cancer that is neither common nor rare. Molecular therapeutics must be linked to molecular diagnostics to permit individualized therapy," scientists in London, the United Kingdom report.
"Not only epithelial cancer cells but also stroma, vasculature and...
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