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 Ovarian Cancer Information - December 1, 2008
| A University of Maastricht study identified the possibility of fatty foods aiding in cancer development, though a certain chemical found in the cooked food. The study revealed that women are more at risk, as the chemical was identified to be a possible cause of ovarian and womb cancer. The study used 120,000 volunteers, 62,000 of whom were women, and observed them for 11 years. At the end of the term, 327 developed womb cancer, and 300 developed ovarian cancer | | In a breakthrough treatment of cancer, researchers in Houston used Carbon nanotubes heated by radio waves to kill cancer cells. In a paper posted online by the journal Cancer, a team at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University reported that the technique destroyed liver cancer tumors in rabbits and caused no side effects | | A low-fat diet may also lower the risk of developing ovarian cancer in postmenopausal women, a new study has found. The study, which appears Tuesday in the current issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, analyzed 40,000 older women over an average of eight years | | Certain compounds present in cranberry juice may help boost an ovarian cancer patient's sensitivity to chemotherapy, a new study has found. Researchers at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. found that pre-treating ovarian tumor cells with the juice increased the cancer-killing power of platinum drugs used in chemotherapy nearly six times | | The latest study of women with breast cancer suggests that reform is needed to increase the insurance probability models that assess their risks. The authors of the new JAMA study believe that genetic testing should be covered for women who seem to fall victim to breast cancer that seems to have struck them from nowhere | |
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