There’s currently no reliable screening test for ovarian cancer, meaning that most cases are caught at an advanced stage, ...
Removing the fallopian tubes during routine gynecological surgery reduced the risk of serous ovarian cancer by nearly 80%.
A preventative surgical procedure developed in British Columbia appears to drastically reduce a woman’s risk of developing the most common and deadly form of ovarian cancer, a merciless disease of ...
Waiting after an ovarian cancer diagnosis and throughout the treatment process is common. Here’s why it happens and what you can do to ease your mind.
A Nanaimo gynecologist is advocating for Island general surgery departments to roll out a procedure after a new report shows a high success rate in reducing the risk of ovarian cancer.
BOSTON — Patients with non-BRCA gene mutations undergoing risk-reduction surgery to prevent tubo-ovarian cancers showed no signs of tubo-ovarian high-grade serous carcinoma or serous tubal ...
A prevention strategy developed by Canadian researchers can reduce the risk of the most common and deadly form of ovarian ...
Ovarian cancer standard of care has not advanced in over 30 years, but a new DNA-based immunotherapy could be a gamechanger, showing major survival gains in clinical trials.
More than 3,000 Canadian women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year and about 2,000 will die from the disease. But now ...
Obesity is associated with increased surgical complications in EOC, including wound infections and intestinal problems, but not with overall survival differences. Meta-analysis showed obesity linked ...
CHICAGO -- Upfront surgery for advanced ovarian cancer failed to improve overall survival (OS) versus interval debulking but did improve progression-free survival (PFS) for the first time in a phase ...