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Prevention choices for women at risk for ovarian cancer
NCI Cancer Bulletin • January 26, 2010
Since the mid-1990s, dozens of studies in the United States and abroad have confirmed that women who carry specific BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations face a much higher risk of some cancers, including an approximately 60 percent lifetime risk of breast cancer and a 15 to 40 percent lifetime risk of ovarian cancer.
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Newly published results from Dr. Nicole Urban and colleagues
NCI Cancer Bulletin • January 12, 2010
Teams of scientists around the world are working to develop ways to detect early signs of ovarian cancer in blood. Considerable progress has been made in understanding the disease ...
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Seattle Woman Magazine • October, 2009
“I wanted to do something where I could make a difference,” says Nicole Urban, Ph.D. And making a difference is exactly what Urban has been doing for the past 25 years as a leading researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
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NCI Cancer Bulletin • September 22, 2009
Women with advanced ovarian cancer lived longer and without their tumors growing after receiving a modified regimen of a standard chemotherapy drug combination, Japanese researchers reported...
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NCI Cancer Bulletin • July 14, 2009
Women who have taken hormone therapy are at a higher risk of developing ovarian cancer than women who have not, according to a nationwide study involving nearly 910,000 women in Denmark.
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NCI Cancer Bulletin • June 16, 2009
Canadian researchers have identified a gene mutation that appears to be common in a rare form of ovarian cancer known as granulosa-cell tumors.
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NCI Cancer Bulletin • September 5, 2008
In Washington state -- where more women die from ovarian cancer than in most parts of the country -- tumors are too often diagnosed too late...
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NY Times • June 13, 2007
Cancer experts have identified a set of health problems that may be symptoms of ovarian cancer, and they are urging women who have the symptoms for more than a few weeks to see their doctors.
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