Ovarian Cancer News
December 23, 2024
Top Headlines
Oct. 30, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a way that ovarian cancer tumors manipulate their environment to resist immunotherapy and identified a drug target that could overcome that resistance. The study used a ...
Oct. 23, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a mechanism that ovarian tumors use to cripple immune cells and impede their attack -- blocking the energy supply T cells depend on. The work points toward a promising new immunotherapy approach for ovarian cancer, which ...
Oct. 2, 2024 — Researchers say that in the course of developing a new model for ovarian cancer, they've developed additional evidence that serous uterine cancer possibly begins in the fallopian tubes, not the ...
Sep. 30, 2024 — Head-to-head study of diagnostic test accuracy found IOTA ultrasound ADNEX model had 96% sensitivity and acceptable specificity in first study of its ...
Latest Headlines
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Imaging Technique Allows Rapid Assessment of Ovarian Cancer Subtypes and Their Response to Treatment
Dec. 6, 2024 — An MRI-based imaging technique predicts the response of ovarian cancer tumors to treatment, and rapidly reveals how well treatment is working, in ...
Sep. 12, 2024 — Scientists discovered a targetable molecule that reprograms immune cells and turns them into cancer ...
Aug. 13, 2024 — Symptom triggered testing, prompted by symptoms such as pain, abdominal bloating/swelling, and feeling full soon after starting to eat, can pick up ...
Aug. 12, 2024 — Women whose Fallopian tubes are removed during sterilization via laparoscopy have only marginally more surgical complications than those whose tubes are simply cut, a study shows. The removal, ...
July 29, 2024 — An iron-binding drug that is already approved for treatment of other diseases could provide a novel way to attack ovarian tumors, according to a new study. The preclinical study combined the analysis ...
May 13, 2024 — An experimental treatment made from a plant virus is effective at protecting against a broad range of metastatic cancers in mice, shows a new study. The treatment, composed of nanoparticles fashioned ...
Feb. 12, 2024 — In many cancers, such as ovarian cancer, each round of chemotherapy kills the majority of cancer cells, while a small population of them survives through treatment. These cells are typically more ...
Jan. 24, 2024 — Results of a preclinical study offer hope for new treatment options in the medium term ovarian cancer is often very aggressive and responds poorly to the therapies currently available. A recent study ...
Nov. 9, 2023 — New experimental evidence suggests that substances known as narrow-spectrum Wnt signaling inhibitors -- which could have fewer side effects than ...
Sep. 21, 2023 — A study has shown that combining adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) with an innovative, personalized cancer vaccine under development can benefit patients ...
Earlier Headlines
July 17, 2024 — Current screening protocols fail to catch a notable number of people carrying genetic mutations associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome and Lynch syndrome, which increase the ...
Aug. 3, 2023 — CAR-T immune therapies could be effective against solid tumors if the right targets are identified, a new study suggests. The researchers successfully deployed CAR-T in a mouse model of ovarian ...
July 21, 2023 — A preclinical study showed that injecting ovarian tissue-derived differentiated induced pluripotent stem cells can restore hormone production and fertility in mice with premature ovarian failure ...
July 12, 2023 — Prostate cancer is a leading cause of death among American men, and it's resistant to one of the most powerful chemotherapy medications -- cisplatin. Now, researchers have developed the first ...
July 7, 2023 — A group has discovered previously unidentified ovarian cancer-specific membrane proteins. Their findings suggest a new strategy to diagnose ovarian ...
June 23, 2023 — Using 3-D models of ovarian cancer tumors, scientists found differences in gene activity based on where a cell is in a tumor, demonstrating how a cell's location and environment in a cancerous ...
Mar. 28, 2023 — Researchers develop a 3D cell culture system to test how inhibiting fibroblast activities can help treat lung cancer. To simulate the tumor microenvironment and mimic real tissues, the team ...
Dec. 1, 2022 — About 80% of people with cancer suffer from significant muscle wasting, or loss of muscle tissue, and 30% of these patients die from this condition. New research in mice finds that the severity of ...
Nov. 30, 2022 — Researchers found an existing drug may help decrease side effects of cisplatin, a widely used cancer treatment that was discovered in ...
Nov. 29, 2022 — New research yields a novel method to use ultrasound to enhance machine learning's ability to accurately diagnose -- or rule out -- ovarian ...
Nov. 10, 2022 — Researchers have discovered factors that may make breast and ovarian cancers associated with BRCA1/2 gene mutations more likely to ...
Oct. 25, 2022 — A new approach to cancer immunotherapy that uses one type of immune cell to kill another -- rather than directly attacking the cancer -- provokes a robust anti-tumor immune response that shrinks ...
Oct. 12, 2022 — Observing how cells are organised in mucinous ovarian cancer can lead to new treatment options, study ...
Sep. 13, 2022 — Researchers have developed a promising, first-of-its-kind messenger RNA therapy for ovarian cancer as well as cachexia, a muscle-wasting condition associated with cancer and other chronic ...
May 4, 2022 — Researchers share the identification of a new potential target for CAR T cells called OR2H1 that they have demonstrated inhibits growth in lung and ovarian ...
Apr. 14, 2022 — Researchers want to improve their understanding of the immune environment in ovarian cancer in hopes of making immunotherapy an option for these patients. Researchers now report on key ...
Mar. 30, 2022 — Researchers have found that treatment with miR-634 reduces the resistance of oral squamous cell carcinoma cells to cisplatin, resulting in increased tumor cell killing. An ointment containing miR-634 ...
Mar. 22, 2022 — The appearance of ovarian lesions on ultrasound is an effective predictor of cancer risk that can help women avoid unnecessary surgery, according to a new ...
Mar. 16, 2022 — A research team has discovered novel metabolic mechanisms that contribute to how ovarian cancer escapes from immune attack, and how combination therapies can exploit these pathways to improve ovarian ...
Mar. 15, 2022 — Researchers have demonstrated a genetic link between endometriosis and ovarian cancer subtypes enabling them to identify potential drug targets for therapy and increasing the understanding of both ...