Scientists at the US National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, found that high levels of certain proteins were linked with survival of the cancer cells in ovarian cancer. These proteins are part of the cell network that controls apoptosis (the cell's self-destruct programme) and responds to stress, and together they form a pattern that gives information about the tumour.
More research is needed to confirm these proteins, so that doctors can use them to measure how resistant a woman's ovarian tumour is as soon as it is diagnosed, and identify which patients could benefit from different treatments. The findings were published in Clinical Cancer Research on 15 November 2007.
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