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Quest Diagnostics to offer new ovarian cancer test

2010-03-08T14:15:43Z

<div id="subtitle">Quest Diagnostics selling presurgical ovarian cancer test, cites improved treatment potential</div><div><p>Medical lab operator Quest Diagnostics Inc. said Monday it is selling the OVA1 blood test, which aims to better assess a woman's likelihood for ovarian cancer.</p><p>The OVA1 test, which was approved by the Reuters Health) - Only one in 100 women with symptoms typical of ovarian cancer, such as persistent bloating or pelvic pain, actually has the disease, researchers reported on Thursday.</p><p>Several medical societies recommend the use of these and other symptoms to detect ovarian cancer early before it spreads, but the new study found no evidence that sympto...

Proteins show promise for ovarian cancer screening

2010-02-23T07:50:51Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Elevated levels of three proteins show ovarian cancer is starting to grow years before women are diagnosed, but they do not increase soon enough to be an early indicator of the disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.</p><p>The researchers analyzed blood samples from a large clinical trial and identified 34 women with ovarian cancer along wi...

Diagnosis and Treatment of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

2010-02-23T15:30:23Z

Ovarian cancer represents about 25% of all female genital tract malignancies. However, there are more deaths from ovarian cancer each year in the United States than from endometrial cancer and cervical cancer combined. The lifetime risk of developing spontaneous ovarian cancer is about 1.7%. Epithelial ovarian cancer was expected cause 15,520 deaths in 2008. Mean age at diagnosis is 60. There has been a significant improvement in t...

KELLY RIPA announces the Text-A-Than for a Cause New York

2009-09-13T07:45:54Z

KELLY RIPA at Electrolux to encourage amenities to ''Text'' to benefit ovarian Cancer in Time Square , New York City 09-09-2009.Photo by Barry Talesnick-IPOL-Globe Photos, inc..K63099BT....

KELLY RIPA at Electrolux to encourage amenities to "Text" to benefit ovarian...

2009-09-11T09:34:49Z

KELLY RIPA at Electrolux to encourage amenities to "Text" to benefit ovarian Cancer in Time Square , New York City 09-09-2009 Photo by Barry Talesnick-IPOL-Globe Photos, inc.

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Genetic Health Ovarian Cancer

2010-02-25T11:18:27Z

According to recent estimates by the United States government, ovarian cancer is the eighth most common cancer, with an estimated 21,650 new cases in 2008, but is the fifth most deadly, with an estimated 15,520 deaths in 2008. The fact that there is a genetic health - ovarian cancer link has now been established beyond doubt. This is supported by the fact that there is an increased incidence of the cancer among women with a family hist...

What Does Ovarian Cancer Look Like on an Ultrasound

2010-02-25T11:19:08Z

Ovarian cancer varies in seriousness from slow growing to aggressively invasive. They may be solid, fluid-filled or a combination of both. Ovarian tumors may be primarily cystic, solid, or mixed. This cancer is difficult to detect because it remains symptomless until fairly late in the disease process. Symptoms associated with ovarian cancer are very non-specific and by the time a patient develops these symptoms, the ovarian cancer has frequently spread to distant sites. There are ways to tes...

Entertainment News - December 02, 1999

2009-08-14T06:56:38Z

K17384JBB.The Ovarian cancer research fund benefit and auction.Roseland Ballroom, NYC. 12-02-1999.STEPHANIE SEYMOUR and husband. PETER BRANDT.Photo By John Barrett- Globe Photos, Inc. 1999....

12 Annual Super Saturday to beat ovarian cancer in Watermill, New York

2009-08-14T06:53:24Z

12th Annual Super Saturday to beat ovarian cancer in Watermill, New York. .Barry Talesnick -IPOL-Globe Photos.KELLY RUTHERFORD .I14448BT....

Nanotech gene therapy kills ovarian cancer in mice

2010-02-26T02:46:44Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tiny synthetic particles carrying a payload of toxin worked as well as chemotherapy at killing ovarian cancer cells in mice, without the bad side effects, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.</p><p>They said the treatment, which relies on the use of nanotechnology to deliver genetic material into cells, ...

Early periods may reduce ovarian cancer survival

2010-02-26T05:05:19Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women whose menstrual periods start at a young age are less likely to survive ovarian cancer than their peers whose periods start later, new research shows. Similarly, women who have more menstrual cycles over their lifetime also have worse survival.</p><p>"Although we have relatively good knowledge about the influence of reproductive facto...

Hormone replacement therapy tied to ovarian cancer

2010-02-26T09:27:30Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research suggests that no matter how hormone replacement therapy is given, it increases the risk of ovarian cancer.</p><p>Hormone replacement therapy, consisting of estrogen, progesterone, or both, and used to relieve the symptoms of menopause, has been linked to breast cancer, CHICAGO (Reuters) - Menopausal women who took hormone replacement therapy increased their risk of ovarian cancer by 38 percent, Danish researchers reported on Tuesday.</p><p>The study of more than 900,000 Danish women aged 50 to 79 found about one extra ovarian cancer for roughly 8,300 women taking hormone therapy each yea...

Hormones may tie caffeine to cancer risk

2010-02-26T12:21:32Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Coffee and general caffeine intake may affect a woman's levels of estrogen and other sex hormones, a new study suggests -- offering a potential explanation for findings that link caffeine to certain cancers.</p><p>Several studies have found connections between caffeine and breast and ovarian cancers, though the findings have not always been...

12th Annual ELF Revlon Run Walk For Women

2009-05-04T19:54:45Z

May 02, 2009 - New York, New York, USA - Personality KAREN DUFFY attends the 12th Annual ELF Revlon Run/Walk for Women held to benefit Breast and Ovarian cancer programs at Times Square

Tests could find ovarian cancer early

2010-03-03T17:53:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Study: Doctors find ovarian cancer early, screening tests might be possible one day</div><div><p>Doctors screening women for ovarian cancer were able to pick up the disease about two years earlier than normal, according to a British study published Wednesday.</p><p>Scientists have long searched for a way to identify ovarian cancer early, which kills nearly 100,000 women worldwide every year. If...

Fertility drugs do not boost ovarian cancer risk: study

2010-03-02T05:46:24Z

<div><p>The use of fertility drugs does not increase a woman's risk of developing ovarian cancer, the largest study of its kind reported Friday.</p><p>For decades doubt has persisted as to whether drugs commonly used to increase a woman's chance of becoming pregnant also boosted her susceptibility to cancer.</p><p>A pair of studies in the mid-1990s suggested a link, causing anxiety among women seeking to enhance ...

Germ Cell Tumor, Ovarian

2010-03-05T11:58:27Z

Definition of ovarian cancer: Cancer that forms in tissues of the ovary (one of a pair of female reproductive glands in which the ova, or eggs, are formed). Most ovarian cancers are either ovarian epithelial carcinomas (cancer that begins in the cells on the surface of the ovary) or malignant germ cell tumors (cancer that begins in egg cells). Estimated new cases and deaths from ovarian cancer in the United States in 2008: New cases: 2...

Sister Mary Joseph Nodule as a First and Only Sign of Extraovarian Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

2010-03-01T02:41:11Z

<div><p>Sister Mary Joseph nodule is a term introduced by Hamilton Bailey in 1960 for a malignant umbilical tumor. It was named after Sister Mary Joseph, a nurse who was the first person to observe umbilical nodules as one of the less well-known signs of intra-abdominal metastatic disease. It can be the first symptom of an underlying cancer or an indicat...