Sentences with phrase «treat women with ovarian cancer»

«What we've discovered will help clinicians to better treat women with ovarian cancer,» says Dr. Ben Tsang, senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and professor at the University of Ottawa.

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The drug is meant for women with advanced ovarian cancer who have already been treated with two or more chemotherapies.

By the time of diagnosis the majority of women with ovarian cancer already have extensive spread of the disease which makes it difficult to treat by surgery or chemotherapy.

«For decades, women have been treated with a combination of treatment options, resulting in poor prognosis for most women with advanced - stage ovarian cancer, but there are many survivors as well,» said Dr. Narod, senior scientist at Women's College Research Instiwomen have been treated with a combination of treatment options, resulting in poor prognosis for most women with advanced - stage ovarian cancer, but there are many survivors as well,» said Dr. Narod, senior scientist at Women's College Research Instiwomen with advanced - stage ovarian cancer, but there are many survivors as well,» said Dr. Narod, senior scientist at Women's College Research InstiWomen's College Research Institute.

More than 80 percent of women with advanced stage high - grade serous ovarian cancer experience relapses even after repeated surgeries and multiple rounds of chemotherapy, and this effective new approach to treat the disease could be a major step forward in preventing cancer from returning.

In their research, scientists at Rutgers created animal models that closely resemble the cancerous tumors found in women with ovarian cancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratorycancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratorycancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratoryCancer Institute into laboratory mice.

Treating women with olaparib, a new type of experimental drug called a PARP inhibitor, after their initial cancer treatment, may help prevent their ovarian cancer from coming back, according to a phase - II clinical trial led by UK scientists.