First, the patient is given oral doses of hormones to mildly stimulate her ovaries.
This fluid can swell the ovaries and sometimes moves into the abdomen in large amounts.
The most dangerous is a condition called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, when ovaries become enlarged.
It has ten other drugs in human trials involving cancers of the breast, colon, brain, ovaries and pancreas.
That programme used ultrasound to spot the cysts on the ovaries, which were then removed with an operation.
Unaffected by the African-queen-bee's scent, which normally maintains her majesty's monopoly on reproduction, the interloper activated her ovaries.
In women, the cancer may have spread to the womb, ovaries, and other parts of the reproductive system.
At present the options to reduce their risks are limited - a double mastectomy or having their ovaries removed.
These findings support the idea that the Pill keeps a woman's ovaries young.
His patients were having trouble conceiving, and he reckoned that their ovaries might do better after a short break from ovulating.
Female rats who had their ovaries removed became just as prone to a chemically induced condition similar to PD as male rats.
Removal of the ovaries does not completely remove the chance that cancer will develop, as some ovarian tissue can be left behind.
Unlike rugged sperm and hardy embryos, human eggs and the ovaries that contain them have proved extremely difficult to freeze and resurrect.
It has long been suspected that women who have cysts growing in their ovaries are at a higher risk of developing ovarian cancer.
In total, 75 women aged 31 to 56, who had undergone a hysterectomy or had their ovaries removed took part in the study.
As part of her treatment, Brown has had one of her ovaries, several lymph nodes and part of one of her fallopian tubes removed.
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome develops after you take a type of fertility medication that acts directly on your ovaries, stimulating them to produce multiple eggs.
They use ultrasound to take a series of cross-sectional pictures of a possible tumour (they concentrate at the moment on breasts, ovaries and prostate glands).
Rats exposed to phthalates had offspring with higher rates of kidney and prostate disease, and their great-grandchildren had more disease of the testicles, ovaries and obesity.
By suppressing ovulation, it actually reduces the risk of two types of cancer: ovarian, which affects the ovaries and endometrial, which affects the lining of the uterus.
So when she asked me to tell her more about the cancer, I explained that it had spread not only to her ovaries but also to her lymph nodes.
Ian Gunn at the Animal Gene Storage Resource Centre of Australia, also in Melbourne, is collecting testes, ovaries, bits of skin and other body parts from over 100 species.
He has pioneered the use of technology to study cancer-associated genes and to construct animal models of many human cancer types, including cancers of the lung, pancreas, brain, and ovaries.
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This is particularly true for young women with cancer, since the radiation and chemotherapy required to kill the disease also damage their ovaries and can plunge them into premature menopause.
They also administered oral doses of the statins to two groups of female rats, one group with intact ovaries and another group with the ovaries removed to mimic the effects of menopause.
The hormones in the spray replace the small amount of testosterone produced by the ovaries and are equal to the smallest amount of oestrogen produced by a woman during her menstrual cycle.
It turns out that cells can flake off of tumors in the ovaries or the lining of the uterus, and float down to rest in the cervix, where Pap tests are performed.
This gland is "switched off" during IVF treatment because it controls a woman's own hormone production, preventing any activity which could interfere with treatment which artificially stimulates the ovaries to release an egg.
Ron Martin said after getting breast cancer, Debbie Martin had her ovaries removed preventively because she was also at very high genetic risk for ovarian cancer, which has killed several women in her family.
When researchers engineered mice to lack the "alternative receptor" which binds to dioxins, the mice, evidence emerged which suggested that this receptor played a role in the immune system, the liver, ovaries and other organs.
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