Accurate prediction of survival span of women with advanced ovarian cancer now possible

Accurate prediction of survival span of women with advanced ovarian cancer now possible
Now a new test can predict the accurate duration of how long an advanced ovarian cancer patient will live.

About 7,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year in the UK and the disease kills about 4,000 women a year. Symptoms can be vague and include feeling bloated or full, irregular periods or bleeding, tummy or back pain and passing urine more often than normal. Pain during sex and constipation are other possible signs. Researcher Yinyin Yuan said, ‘We used to think of tumors as simply a collection of cancer cells but we now know that they are often complex ecosystems made up of different types of healthy cell, too. Our study has revealed that diverse cell populations at the sites of cancer spread are a clinically important feature of particularly aggressive ovarian cancers.’ Adding, ‘We have developed a new test to assess the diversity of metastatic sites and use it to predict a woman’s chances of surviving their disease.’ ‘More work is needed to refine our test and move it into the clinic but, in future, it could be used to identify women with especially aggressive ovarian cancers so they can be treated with the best possible therapies available on the NHS or through clinical trials,’ said Yuan. Research on the test involved 61 women with 192 secondary tumours. The findings were published in the journal Oncotarget . Read more about Advances in the treatment of ovarian cancer

Source: ANI

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