Ovarian Cancer
Jan 04, 2021
15-Hydroxy-8(17),13(E)-labdadiene-19-carboxylic acid (HLCA) isolated from Juniperus foetidissima, has been recently identified as an antiproliferative agent; however, the molecular basis of antiprolif...
Jan 04, 2021
To evaluate the clinical significance and genomic associations of concurrent serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma (STIC) with high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC) of the ovary in women undergoing prim...
Jan 04, 2021
Surgical staging for apparent early stage ovarian cancer includes systematic pelvic and paraaortic lymph node evaluation to detect occult stage III disease. Though lymphadenectomy procedure is associa...
Dec 31, 2020
Targeted agents, such as antiangiogenic drugs (e.g., bevacizumab) and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (e.g., rucaparib), have been shown to improve outcomes in patients with newly diagnosed or ...
Dec 31, 2020
Despite the use of front-line anticancer drugs such as paclitaxel for ovarian cancer treatment, mortality rates have remained almost unchanged for the past three decades and the majority of patients w...
Dec 31, 2020
Ovarian cancer (OvCa) is one of the leading causes of death due to its high metastasis rate to the peritoneum. Recurrent peritoneal tumors also develop despite the use of conventional platinum-based c...
Dec 24, 2020
Intraperitoneal chemotherapy (IPC) is a locoregional treatment option in patients with peritoneal metastases (PM). Here, we present an ovarian cancer (OC)-derived PM mouse model for the study of diffe...
Dec 24, 2020
Risk-reducing bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) is an effective strategy to prevent pelvic serous carcinoma for women at high risk of developing ovarian cancer; however, it results in premature m...
Dec 24, 2020
Ovarian cancer, as the malignant tumor with the highest mortality rate in gynecological tumors. At present, the main treatment for ovarian cancer is the combination of cytoreduction surgery and chemot...
Dec 21, 2020
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynaecological cancer, most patients relapse within 12 to 24 months, and eventually die, especially platinum-resistant patients. Gene therapy has been one of the most...
Dec 21, 2020
CRISPR-Cas9 system can be used to generate knock-out cancer cell lines. An insertion or deletion induced by a single guide RNA (gRNA) is often used to generate knock-out cells, however, some cells exp...
Dec 21, 2020
To overcome the drawbacks of conventional delivery, this review spotlights a number of nanoscale drug delivery systems, including nanoparticles, liposomes, nano micelles, branched dendrimers, nanocaps...
Dec 17, 2020
Platinum based chemotherapy is the treatment of choice for ovarian cancer patients with a platinum treatment free interval of >6 months. Niraparib is an oral poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor ...
Dec 17, 2020
Sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) such as heparan sulfate (HS) are heteropolysaccharides implicated in the pathology of protein aggregation diseases including localized and systemic forms of amyloido...
Dec 17, 2020
AdCD40L is a replication-deficient virus carrying the gene for CD40 ligand which has previously been evaluated in patients with urothelial cancer and malignant melanoma. Herein, we present the results...
Dec 15, 2020
Published research has shown that women with ovarian cancer have among the highest rates of venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) of all patients with cancer. “An estimated 5% to 25% of patients with ovari...
Dec 14, 2020
Although cannabis remains illegal in many parts of the United States, 33 states have approved medical cannabis programs as of March 2020. “With the likely expansion of medical cannabis across the US...
Dec 14, 2020
Delivery of therapeutic small interfering RNA (siRNA) via functionalized nanoparticles holds great promise for cancer therapy. However, developing a safe and efficient delivery carrier of siRNA is a c...
Dec 14, 2020
B-cell CLL/lymphoma 7 protein family member C (BCL7C) located at chromosome 16p11.2 shares partial sequence homology with the other two family members, BCL7A and BCL7B. Its role in cancer remains comp...
Dec 14, 2020
The growth and spread of malignant tumors such as ovarian carcinomas are governed in part by complex interconnected-signaling cascades occurring between stromal and tumor cells. These reciprocal cross...