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unusual facts about ovarian cancer



Mary Grace Canfield

In 1966, Canfield played Abner Kravitz's sister, Harriet, on three episodes of Bewitched in the interval between the death from ovarian cancer of actress Alice Pearce, who played Abner's wife, Gladys Kravitz, before the hiring of Pearce's successor, Sandra Gould, in the role of Mrs. Kravitz.

Myka Bering

In season 4 episode What Matters Most, Myka is diagnosed with ovarian cancer during the physical that all the agents must take part in.

Society for Women's Health Research

When her friend, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, developed ovarian cancer, Dr. Haseltine seized the opportunity to promote the need for more research into conditions affecting women.

Zenobia Camprubí

She eventually became a professor at the University of Maryland before her death from ovarian cancer, aged 69, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, two days after her husband Juan Ramón Jiménez received the Nobel Prize in Literature.


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Avis Hope Eckelberry

Eckelberry grew up around Toluca Lake, California and died in 2012 of ovarian cancer at the age of 56, ten months after the death of Bob Hope's widow, Dolores Hope.

BRCA

BRCA mutation, mutations in two genes which produce a hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndrome

John Strelecky

Strelecky has used his books to raise funds for a number of charitable organizations including Habitat for Humanity, the Ovarian Cancer Society, Caribbean Conservation Corporation, and Water is Life International.

Marlena Fejzo

Marlena Schoenberg Fejzo, Ph.D., (born February 20, 1968) is an American medical scientist and professor of research on Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG)Hyperemesis gravidarum and ovarian cancer.

Maurice Lenz

Despite his retirement from the practice of medicine, Dr. Lenz continued his studies with research fellowships, at the Curie Institute and in ovarian cancer with the Radiumhemmet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Ovarian cyst

Additionally, a blood test may be taken before surgery to check for elevated CA-125, a tumor marker, which is often found in increased levels in ovarian cancer, although it can also be elevated by other conditions resulting in a large number of false positives.

Primary peritoneal carcinoma

Primary peritoneal carcinoma shows similar rates of tumor suppressor gene dysfunction (p53, BRCA, WT1) as ovarian cancer and can also show an increased expression of HER-2/neu.

Ris Lacoste

Lacoste is also very active in the community, participating in annual fundraising efforts for the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and D.C. Central Kitchen, to name a few.

Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University

Doxil - additional information can be found also at Doxorubicin - For the treatment of patients with ovarian cancer.