Word: ovarian
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...woman dying of ovarian cancer spends her last hours telling us about her life. The subject is familiar, but one cannot remain unmoved by Margaret Edson's well-crafted play and the toughness of Kathleen Chalfant's starring performance...
Unfortunately, what Janowski felt was not terribly far from the truth. A small, benign ovarian cyst that had developed weeks before had shifted into a position where it was aggravating her Fallopian tube and cutting off blood flow...
Janowski's ordeal is mostly over. She will never have another ovarian cyst and, if she can help it, her team will never miss her again...
Just how far-reaching is distressingly apparent in the ensuing conversation. Women with this gene mutation have an 85% lifetime risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer. Kristen faces as much as a 60% chance of cancer in her other breast. She must decide whether to have her breasts removed, or to pursue various other pre-emptive treatments. But that is just the beginning. Once a patient knows about her genetic predisposition to cancer, she must decide whether or not she is going to lie on the myriad forms and applications that ask her to divulge...
...Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Dr. Mark Malkin is working with a substance that targets a receptor for another growth factor called PDGF (platelet-derived growth factor). This receptor studs the surfaces of cells in certain ovarian, prostate, lung and brain tumors. Malkin has been testing the drug, SU101, on patients with an extraordinarily deadly brain tumor called glioblastoma. Median survival for a patient found to have this cancer is 14 months...