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Ovarian Cancer

Robotic interval debulking surgery for advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: current challenge or future direction? A systematic review.

Oct 12, 2020

We evaluated the effectiveness, safety and efficacy of robotic interval debulking surgery (IDS) in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT). We conducted a...

Salpingectomy for the risk reduction of ovarian cancer: is it time for a salpingectomy-alone approach?

Oct 12, 2020

To summarize published evidence supporting current strategies for the prevention of epithelial ovarian cancer in women with a genetic, elevated risk for the development of this disease, as well as the...

MicroRNA-936/ERBB4/Akt axis exhibits anticancer properties of gastric cancer through inhibition of cell proliferation, migration, and invasion.

Oct 08, 2020

Gastric cancer is one of the most common cancers globally and has a poor prognosis. MiR-936 has been reported to regulate cell activity and tumor progression in non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, and...

Serum Albumin as a Predictor of Survival after Interval Debulking Surgery for Advanced Ovarian Cancer (AOC): A Retrospective Study.

Oct 08, 2020

To investigate the impact of serum albumin (at diagnosis and pre-operatively) on survival in patients undergoing cytoreductive surgery for advanced ovarian cancer(AOC) and whether improvement in album...

Ovarian cancer in California: Guideline adherence, survival, and the impact of geographic location, 1996-2014.

Oct 08, 2020

Evidence suggests that geographic location may independently contribute to ovarian cancer survival. We aimed to investigate how the association between residential location and ovarian cancer-specific...

Peptide-protein coassembling matrices as a biomimetic 3D model of ovarian cancer.

Oct 05, 2020

Bioengineered three-dimensional (3D) matrices expand our experimental repertoire to study tumor growth and progression in a biologically relevant, yet controlled, manner. Here, we used peptide amphiph...

Ursolic acid reduces Adriamycin resistance of human ovarian cancer cells through promoting the HuR translocation from cytoplasm to nucleus.

Oct 05, 2020

Ursolic acid (UA) has been shown to suppress various tumor progression, however, its roles in Adriamycin resistance of human ovarian cancer (OC) cells are still unclear. This work aims to investigate ...

BRCA1/2 mutations and risk-reducing bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy among Latinas: The UPTAKE study.

Oct 05, 2020

Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) is a risk management approach with strong evidence of mortality reduction for women with germline mutations in the tumor suppressor genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BRCA1/...

Non-surgical prevention strategies in women with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndromes.

Oct 01, 2020

Objectives To review non-surgical prevention strategies in women with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndromes. Content Women with a gBRCA1 or 2 mutations face a high cumulative breast and ovari...

Aspirin overcomes cisplatin resistance in lung cancer by inhibiting cancer cell stemness.

Oct 01, 2020

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and is commonly treated by cisplatin. Although cisplatin treatment may initially be successful, its effectiveness usually reduces significantly in dise...

Nanoparticle delivery systems to combat drug resistance in ovarian cancer.

Oct 01, 2020

Due to the lack of early symptoms and difficulty of accurate diagnosis, ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological cancer faced by women. First-line therapy includes a combination of tumor resect...

"I think that a brief conversation from their provider can go a very long way": Patient and provider perspectives on barriers and facilitators of genetic testing after ovarian cancer.

Sep 28, 2020

Identify predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors impacting genetic counseling/testing among ovarian cancer patients guided by Green and Kreuter's PRECEDE-PROCEED model.Gynecologic oncology pro...

Evaluating the role of alcohol consumption in breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility using population-based cohort studies and two-sample Mendelian randomization analyses.

Sep 28, 2020

Alcohol consumption is correlated positively with risk for breast cancer in observational studies, but observational studies are subject to reverse causation and confounding. The association with epit...

Quantitative proteomics reveals a broad-spectrum antiviral property of ivermectin, benefiting for COVID-19 treatment.

Sep 24, 2020

Viruses such as human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), human papillomavirus (HPV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2...

lncRNA HEIH accelerates cell proliferation and inhibits cell senescence by targeting miR-3619-5p/CTTNBP2 axis in ovarian cancer.

Sep 24, 2020

Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most lethal malignancy in gynecology. Numerous studies have confirmed that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are abnormally expressed in ovarian cancer and are closely ass...

Wilms' tumor 1 antigen immunoreactivity in epithelial ovarian cancer - diagnostic and prognostic value.

Sep 24, 2020

Ovarian cancer is a heterogeneous disease, with a number of different histological subtypes with various responses to treatment. Wilms' tumor 1 (WT1) immunoreactivity is used to distinguish between OC...

CD122-selective IL-2 complexes reduce immunosuppression, promote Treg fragility, and sensitize tumor response to PD-L1 blockade.

Sep 21, 2020

The IL-2 receptor (IL-2R) is an attractive cancer immunotherapy target that controls immunosuppressive T regulatory cells (Tregs) and anti-tumor T cells. Here we used IL-2Rβ-selective IL-2/anti-IL-2 ...

Clear cell carcinoma of the ovary: a clinical and molecular perspective.

Sep 21, 2020

Clear cell carcinoma of the ovary has distinct biology and clinical behavior. There are significant geographical and racial differences in the incidence of clear cell carcinoma compared with other epi...

Tanapoxvirus: From discovery towards oncolytic immunovirotherapy.

Sep 17, 2020

Insufficiency of standard cancer therapeutic agents and a high degree of toxicity associated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy have created a dearth of therapeutic options for metastatic cancers. Onc...

Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in interval debulking surgery for advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: A single-center, real-life experience.

Sep 17, 2020

An improvement in survival without increasing perioperative morbidity in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer treated with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) after interval ...

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