The U.S. team managed to uncover the beginnings of the growth of ovarian cancer cells or ovaries. If during the opinion of ovarian tumors began to grow in the ovaries, it is not.
According to the researchers, the new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday (18 / 4), the tumor began to grow in the fallopian tubes toward the ovary or ovaries. These findings may provide and hold a clue how to fight ovarian cancer , often without causing symptoms but when diagnosed has spread everywhere so it was impossible to stop.
Ovarian cancer is the fifth cruellest killer cancer for women, which affects approximately 200,000 people worldwide each year and kills an average of 115,000 women per year.
Numerous previous studies had been theorized that ovarian cancer is derived from elsewhere, but a recent study raised the researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston showed how cancer is rooted first in the oviduct tissue.
Oviduct is a way for the egg from the ovary to the uterus, as part of the female reproductive cycle.
