Most women with the disease are initially treated with and respond well to platinum - based chemotherapy. (sciencedaily.com)
The fifth largest cause of cancer deaths in women, ovarian cancer is generally diagnosed too late in most patients and less than 30 percent of women with the disease survive beyond 10 years. (sciencedaily.com)
Therefore, efforts are now being made to enable women with this disease to bear healthy children by means of nuclear transfer. (sciencedaily.com)