Jul 30, 2020

Olaparib has been approved as an active and maintenance therapy for patients with platinum-sensitive, BRCA-mutated high-grade serous ovarian cancer (SOC). However, the efficacy and safety data is lack...

Jul 27, 2020

Chemotherapy resistance is one of the main reasons for tumor-related death. In particular, ovarian cancer patients often acquire drug resistance after chemotherapy. In this study, we found that the hi...

Jul 27, 2020

For patients with recurrent ovarian cancer, the goals of chemotherapy include palliation of disease-related symptoms with minimum treatment-related side effects. However, there is currently a paucity ...

Jul 27, 2020

Nuclear IGF1R has been linked to poor outcome in cancer. We recently showed that nuclear IGF1R phosphorylates PCNA and increases DNA damage tolerance. In this paper we aimed to describe this mechanism...

Jul 23, 2020

Epithelial ovarian cancer (OC) is known to be a neoplasm responsive to radiotherapy (RT). Nevertheless, the role of RT in the management of this disease represent a topic of controversy, and the indic...

Jul 23, 2020

Recent research indicated favorable prognostic impact of intratumoral natural killer (NK) cells in ovarian carcinoma (OC). The role of NK cells during chemotherapy in OC is unknown. We investigated im...

Jul 23, 2020

Ovarian cancer remains the sixth most frequently occurring cancer in women worldwide. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are capable of regulating gene expression, and thus, participating in a wide range o...

Jul 20, 2020

The majority of women with recurrent ovarian cancer (OvCa) develop malignant ascites with volumes that can reach > 2 L. The resulting elevation in intraperitoneal pressure (IPP), from normal va...

Jul 20, 2020

Canonical Wnt/ β-catenin pathway is one mechanism being activated in platinum-resistant epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Detecting potential targets for Wnt pathway modulation as a putative future th...

Jul 20, 2020

Ovarian cancer (OV) is one of the most lethal gynecological malignance in females, and usually diagnosed at advanced stages. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) exhibit their crucial functions in modulatory...

Jul 16, 2020

Acquired platinum resistance impedes successful treatment of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), and this resistance may be associated with inherited DNA damage-repair response. In the present study, we ...

Jul 16, 2020

Snake venoms consist of a complex mixture of many bioactive molecules. Among them are disintegrins, which are peptides without enzymatic activity, but with high binding affinity for integrins, transme...

Jul 16, 2020

Peritoneal carcinomatosis extent in ovarian cancer is difficult to evaluate by imaging techniques even though it determines the surgical complexity and survival. The aim of this study was to estimate ...

Jul 13, 2020

Patient-derived samples present an advantage over current cell line models of high grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) that are not always reliable and phenotypically faithful models of in vivo HGSOC....

Jul 13, 2020

Recently, multiple poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors have demonstrated excellent efficacy among patients with ovarian cancer with or without BRCA mutations. However, alternative therapeut...

Jul 09, 2020

The established platinum-based drugs form covalent DNA adducts to elicit their cytotoxic response. Although they are widely employed, these agents cause toxic side-effects and are susceptible to cance...

Jul 09, 2020

To determine factors associated with the utilization of palliative care (PC) in patients with metastatic gynecologic cancer who died while hospitalized.Data were abstracted from the National Inpatient...

Jul 09, 2020

Diagnosis of Ovarian cancer (OC) has been a challenge, the purpose, therefore is to identify plasma proteins differentially expressed in epithelial ovarian cancer patients. Human plasma samples from p...

Jul 06, 2020

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) metastasis occurs by exfoliation of cells and multicellular aggregates (MCAs) from the tumor into the peritoneal cavity, adhesion to and retraction of peritoneal mesoth...

Jul 06, 2020

The zinc finger protein 587B () is a novel cisplatin-sensitive gene that was identified in our previous research by using a genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout library in ovarian cancer (OC) cell lines....