UCLA scientists test new strategy that could help fight ovarian cancer
Approach borrows from technique of inhibiting protein fibers that cause Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
UCLA scientists have developed a promising novel method to treat gynecologic tumors. The approach focuses on a protein called p53, which is commonly mutated in women who have high-grade serous ovarian cancer, the deadliest form of reproductive cancer. In many women with the disease, the cancer is very advanced by the time it is diagnosed and is therefore difficult to treat. (more…)