Screening Can Save Few Ovarian Cancer Patients' Lives

In a recent research it has been stated that the best available screening tests reduces ovarian cancer death in a low frequency rate and saves few lives. The findings of the research also suggested that apart from screening tests, prevention and advanced treatment would significantly lower the number of women who die from ovarian cancer. Screening Program for Ovarian Cancer No screening program for ovarian cancer has been proven to save lives, mainly because the disease is uncommon and tends to grow and spread without causing symptoms. Laura Havrilesky, MD, MHSc, of the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, led a team that recently designed a computer-based model of the progression of ovarian cancer from early to late stages. The...

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Triple Negative Breast Cancer Could be Tackled by Three-drug Combination

A combination of three drugs that could treat triple negative breast cancer has been tested by scientists at the John Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.Women with such cancers lack all three hormone receptors - estrogen , progesterone and human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2) and currently, treatments for triple negative breast cancers are limited to surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, which provide some improvements but overall poor prognoses. Treat Triple Negative Breast Cancer In the new study, Johns Hopkins scientists began with a drug called Entinostat, which blocks an enzyme that unfolds DNA, providing regulatory molecules access to genes within and also reactivates a gene called retinoic acid receptor-beta (RAR-B). Thereafter,...

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