Mutations of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have been linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.
The ex-Labour MP has had cancer twice and her mother died of ovarian cancer.
He lost his second wife to ovarian cancer, and had himself survived prostate cancer.
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Her husband, William Jahnke, said the cause was ovarian cancer, the New York Times reports.
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My mother contracted ovarian cancer when she was 53, and she died six months later.
Genentech is still planning a big trial of Avastin in front-line ovarian cancer, Porges said.
They afflict one in 500 American women, and most carriers will get breast or ovarian cancer.
The early signs of ovarian cancer can be confused with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
But she noted that ovarian cancer has poor survival rates because it's rarely caught early.
More than 22, 000 U.S. women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year, and more than 15, 000 die.
Stage four ovarian cancer presented in 2004, and a few months ago it had spread to her liver.
That means there is not a crowd of ovarian cancer survivors around to lobby for more aggressive screening.
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But Annwen Jones, chief executive of Target Ovarian Cancer, said many women and GPs were unaware of them.
The seemingly invincible Hilola has succumbed to ovarian cancer, leaving behind her three home-schooled children and robbing Swamplandia!
In 2004, she learned that she had advanced ovarian cancer, which required extensive surgery and eighteen months of chemotherapy.
In 2003 her mother tested positive for a gene that dramatically raises the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
After brushes with breast cancer and melanoma, Ms. Dunn was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer in January 2004.
The also discovered FGF1 activity increases after ovarian cancer cells become drug resistant.
Target Ovarian Cancer, which conducted a mapping exercise of the disease this summer, also welcomed the promise of early tests.
It presented what appeared to be a less powerful result in ovarian cancer than Avastin did in an earlier trial.
Dundee University researchers believe they have found a way to predict the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs in fighting ovarian cancer.
And his work on creating a simple test for the identification of pancreatic, lung and ovarian cancer is simply amazing.
Known as the silent killer, ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women, killing 14, 600 annually.
Peter Reynolds, chief executive of Ovarian Cancer Action, said most women with ovarian cancer were currently diagnosed with later stage disease.
The charity said the symptoms of ovarian cancer can be very vague, particularly when the disease is in its early stages.
Two-thirds of them will develop breast cancer before the age of 80 and 45% who carry BRCA1 will get ovarian cancer.
According to management, Avastin gained significant market share for ovarian cancer in the region and this trend is expected to continue.
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The scientist believe measuring how active the gene is could predict which women with ovarian cancer will benefit from the drugs.
The previous June, she had learned that she had a recurrence of ovarian cancer, and, after surgery, had resumed her chemotherapy treatment.
First she took on AIDS awareness, then ovarian cancer and other causes.
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