Advanced-stage ovarian cancer patients with BRCA live longer, ma...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 03/09/2008 - 23:00

Two abstracts underscoring the importance of testing for BRCA1/2 mutations in women with ovarian cancer were presented at this week's Society of Gynecologic Oncologists 39th Annual Meeting on Women's Cancers, by researchers from the University of Texas M.

D. Anderson Cancer Center.


 

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