"Gynecologic oncology" is a medical specialty that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of cancers that occur in women's reproductive organs, such as the ovaries, uterus, cervix, vagina, and vulva. Full definition
«Now that we know exactly how changes in EMSY spur cancer cell growth, we can start to design therapies to specifically target that activity and hopefully stop it,» says senior author Douglas Levine, MD, director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at NYU Langone and its Perlmutter Cancer Center. (sciencedaily.com)
In the Phase II clinical trial, Dr. Miller and colleagues in the National Cancer Institute - supported Gynecologic Oncology Group found that in patients who had not received prior chemotherapy, the combination cocktail had a 31 percent response rate for up to 7 months, and an overall survival of 12 months. (sciencedaily.com)
Our approach is to study more than one or two serial recurrences of the disease, adding information about the response to therapy and natural progress of ovarian cancer,» adds J. Brian Szender, MD, MS, senior author and a fellow in Gynecologic Oncology at RPCI. (sciencedaily.com)