Disease

Genes may trump hormones in treating endometriosis

  • March, 12 2019
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Endometriosis affects about one in ten women of reproductive age, making it one of the most common gynaecological disorders in the US. Yet no one really knows what causes the condition, which is occurs when endometrial tissue – which normally lines the wo

Disease

Better late than never: targeted therapies reach ovarian cancer

  • March, 12 2019
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Targeted therapies, including lucrative immune-oncology (I-O) drugs such as Keytruda (pembrolizumab), have been slow to reach the ovarian cancer market. Ovarian cancer isn’t a single cancer; it encompasses a range of tumor-types that originate in the ovar