Topic: Ovarian Cancer
AP News | 2009-03-11 11:37:36
<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 ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-02-06 16:08:52
<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 ...
National Cancer Institutes | 2008-12-30 17:54:16
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 ...
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | 2008-12-16 16:02:51
<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 ...
