Word: ovarian
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Eight years ago, after she had a hysterectomy at age 42, Roslyn Washington was left with an unexpected side effect. Her doctors, who had recommended removing her ovaries as well as her uterus because of fibroid tumors and an ovarian cyst, had warned her about a lengthy recovery period. But, she says, "I was not aware of the fact that there would be a decrease in my sexual life." That's something of an understatement. Washington, an office manager from Silver Spring, Md., who is married and has a teenage daughter, says that after the surgery she felt no sexual...
...September, Mui announced that she had cervical cancer. (In 2000, her sister Ann, who had performed with her in a childhood act, died of ovarian cancer.) Flanked by a phalanx of stars, including Chan and Yeoh, she told her fans: "Please don't worry about me. Watch me win this war." She threw herself a lavish, tearful 40th birthday party and, ever defiant, prepared for a role in Zhang Yimou's next film, House of Flying Daggers. "I realized she would never surrender to the devil of the disease," Zhang told Time. "To her, this film wasn't just...
Aside from being apart over the summer months, Lingman was kept out of action for most of the off-season after undergoing surgery to remove ovarian cysts that later proved to be benign...
...help infertile woman by increasing the short supply of human donor eggs: harvesting the eggs from aborted fetal tissue. With the parents' permission, the team surgically removed developing ovaries from seven aborted fetuses aged between 22 and 33 weeks, and bathed them in a hormone cocktail designed to stimulate ovarian maturation. Although the follicles that eventually produce eggs would normally remain inactive until puberty, in this case they began to secrete the female hormone oestradiol after four weeks in the test-tube?a sign that they were maturing. Team leader Dr. Tal Biron-Shental from Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba...
Hodi says follow up studies with the GM-CSF vaccine are currently being performed on patients with lung cancer, melanoma, ovarian cancer and leukemia...