The rogue cellular engine that drives a majority of ovarian cancers remains frustratingly difficult to disable. A new study comparing cancerous tissue with normal fallopian tube samples advances important insights about this ...
May 19, 2020
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In patients with advanced ovarian cancer, a combination of drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors and PARP inhibitors can produce powerful remissions, clinical trials have shown, but up until now investigators haven't ...
Mar 19, 2020
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In a world first, a woman rendered infertile by cancer treatment gave birth after one of her immature eggs was matured, frozen, and then—five years later—thawed and fertilised, researchers in France reported.
Feb 19, 2020
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Young girls who are about to undergo treatment for cancer or other therapies that pose high risk of infertility can opt to have an ovary removed and preserved for future transplantation when they are ready to pursue pregnancy. ...
Feb 3, 2020
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RUDN University physicians have measured the level of the Anti-Müllerian hormone, which indicates reproductive health, in patients with an ovarian cyst, and also assessed the likelihood of pregnancy after cyst removal surgery. ...
Nov 21, 2019
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Low levels of oxygen in the womb—which can be caused by smoking or conditions such as pre-eclampsia—may cause problems with fertility later in life, a study carried out in rats suggests.
Mar 29, 2019
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New research from the University of Illinois at Chicago shows that cancer cells in the fallopian tube affect normal chemical signaling between reproductive tissues and stimulate the release of norepinephrine, a small molecule ...
Oct 9, 2018
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To clump together and form living tissue, cells secrete molecules that create structure. But that structure isn't always healthy, and understanding how it goes bad could reveal more about the way cancer develops.
Aug 31, 2018
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Tears are a regular occurrence in a fertility clinic. Tears of joy, tears of frustration, tears of loss happen almost daily. For some, those tears are the tears of "what if." What if I had tried to get pregnant sooner? What ...
Jul 25, 2018
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Halle Berry. Janet Jackson. Mariah Carey. Those are just a few celebrities who gave birth well after turning 40. Browse any tabloid rack at your local supermarket and you're bound to see stories of women—some even pushing ...
Apr 16, 2018
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