Showing posts with label simple inclusion cysts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label simple inclusion cysts. Show all posts
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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BRCA
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simple inclusion cysts
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sporadic
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