Despite advances in surgery and chemotherapy over the past 20 years, only modest progress has been made in improving overall survival in patients with ovarian cancer. (cancerresearch.org)
Researchers used the National Cancer Database (NCDB)-- a database that captures roughly 70 percent of new cancer cases in the United States annually — to evaluate treatment plans for patients with ovarian cancer from 2003 through 2011, in order to identify populations at risk of not receiving the standard of care for their disease. (sciencedaily.com)
The earliest and one of the most striking came from observations that the presence of infiltrating T cells (called «tumor - infiltrating lymphocytes,» or TILs) in ovarian tumors is positively and strongly associated with improved survival of patients with ovarian cancer [1]. (cancerresearch.org)