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Monday, April 26, 2010

media item: Study Makes Strides in Understanding Ovarian Cancer (cysts/BRCA/sporadic)



Important: see post April 26th -  full free access:
 PLOS One: Genetic Analysis of the Early Natural History of Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma
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Media article: 
"This is the first study giving very strong evidence that a substantial number of ovarian cancers arise in inclusion cysts and that there is indeed a precursor lesion that you can see, put your hands on, and give a name to," lead author Jeff Boyd, chief scientific officer at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, said in a news release. "Ovarian cancer most of the time seems to arise in simple inclusion cysts of the ovary, as opposed to the surface epithelium."...cont'd

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