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• 09 Aug
  Gene discovery to identify women with cancer risk

  A recent UK study has uncovered a rare gene fault that increases a woman’s risk of ovarian cancer six fold. Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/gene-discovery-to-identify-women-with-cancer-risk-2333598.html

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• 08 Aug
  Investigating Thinking Style in Illness - Research Participants Needed

  Investigating Thinking Style in Illness - Research Participants NeededMacquarie University Student Heather So, practising psychologist and PhD candidate at Macquarie University, is currently undertaking research into the impact of thinking style on affective and behavioural outcomes in illness as...

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• 06 Jun
  Screening tests

  Ovarian Cancer Australia is quoted in an article today in the Herald Sun about screening tests being inadequate for detecting the disease, making it important for women to be aware of symptoms. Click here to view the article and if you would like more information about symptoms please call 1300...

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• 03 Mar
  Connection found between ovarian and kidney cancers

  Researchers at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne have discovered an unexpected connection between ovarian and kidney cancers that provides a promising new treatment for women with clear cell ovarian cancer. Download more information here.

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• 04 Jan
  Cancer survival rates improving

  A report by the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) has found that survival rates for cancers of the ovary, breast, bowel and lung that were diagnosed between 1995 and 2007 in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK improved in all six countries....

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• 15 Dec
  New genetic variants indicate increased risk of ovarian cancer

  A group of international scientists has identified a handful of important new genetic variants indicating increased risk of ovarian cancer, which also reveal important genetic similarities between it and breast cancer.Researchers from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), the US,...

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