Epithelial ovarian cancer is the leading cause of gynecologic
cancer deaths in the United States
and three times more lethal than breast
cancer. It is usually not diagnosed until its advanced stages and has come to be known as the "silent killer."
This new phase II clinical trial led by Gil Mor, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale, included 500 patients; 350 healthy controls and 150 ovarian cancer patients.