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...humble, chalky pill is already linked to reduced rates of heart attack fatalities, and some studies suggest it could reduce the risk of colon cancer. Now, a study out of New York University Medical Center has created a speculative connection between aspirin use and a reduced risk of epithelial ovarian cancer, the most common form of ovarian cancer...
Help provided by co-workers isn't always formalized. In 1993 Joan Frier, now a public relations manager for SHARE, a national breast- and ovarian-cancer advocacy group based in New York City, started a new job as a legal text editor while recovering from breast cancer. Her bosses sometimes had unrealistic expectations, and it was her co-workers who gave her day-to-day encouragement. "They would take on some tasks for me, cover for my mistakes and help me with new things," she recalls. "I couldn't have done it without these people...
...news is not good. It is ovarian cancer, and it is inoperable. Listening to the sympathetic doctor, the woman who brought her stricken friend here now has a job to do: explain death to her own daughter. She goes into the lobby and finds the girl. And...sniff...excuse...
...venom contains a protein, contortrostatin, that retards the growth and metastasis of tumors. Markland's team has found that injections of contortrostatin not only prevent the spread of ovarian and breast tumors in mice but also shrink them as much as 75%. The group hopes to start clinical trials of contortrostatin in about two years...
...system. These lock onto a protein called HER-2/neu found in the tumors of a third of all breast cancers. At UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, researchers are working on a vaccine to treat brain cancer. Still other scientists are experimenting with vaccines for kidney, colon, pancreatic and ovarian cancer...