Sentences with phrase «compared women with ovarian cancer»

Guard against ovarian woes When Australian researchers recently compared women with ovarian cancer to cancer - free women, they found that roughly one glass of wine a day seemed to reduce the risk of the disease by as much as 50 percent.

Not exact matches

The study, which compared each model's success in Caucasian women with those of Asian descent (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean and Vietnamese), also raised important questions about the effect of race on cancer development: When Caucasian and Asian patients with similar family histories of breast and ovarian cancer were compared, the Asian women had higher rates of genetic mutation, although the rates of these cancers for Asians have traditionally been lower.

Up to half of women with advanced - stage ovarian cancer might be cured, compared to the current 20 per cent survival rate, argues Dr. Steven Narod, senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute, who calls for a new standard of treatment for women with late - stage ovarian cawomen with advanced - stage ovarian cancer might be cured, compared to the current 20 per cent survival rate, argues Dr. Steven Narod, senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute, who calls for a new standard of treatment for women with late - stage ovarian caWomen's College Research Institute, who calls for a new standard of treatment for women with late - stage ovarian cawomen with late - stage ovarian cancer.

The period of time before ovarian cancer recurred (called progression - free survival) improved by nearly 3.5 months with the additional drug (13.8 months compared with 10.4 months for the woman on chemotherapy alone).

Women with endometriosis have a 1.5 percent lifetime chance of developing ovarian cancer compared with 1 percent in the general female population.

Women who took anastrozole experienced fewer womb and ovarian cancers and non melanoma skin cancers, and fewer deep vein thromboses and gynecological issues, compared with those who took tamoxifen.

The researchers compared the genes of more than 8,000 white European women — including around 3,250 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, 3,400 women who did not have cancer and 2,000 women who had a family history of the disease.

«Women with a BRCA mutation have a 40 to 50 percent chance of getting ovarian cancer in their lifetime compared to somebody with an average risk, who has a 1.8 percent lifetime risk,» she said.

In the early 80s, Harvard professor Dr. Daniel W. Cramer led a study comparing 215 healthy women with 215 women who had ovarian cancer.