Ovarian Quotes

When you put someone on the birth control pill, you block a lot of the ovarian production [of testosterone]. - Dr. Andre Guay

What we need more than anything is a screening test for ovarian cancer that women can get routinely in the course of their normal care. - Susan Lowell Butler

We've long suspected that genomic changes underlie cancer risk, but that knowledge hasn't translated yet into a broadly applicable way to identify individuals most at risk. The BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes implicated in breast and ovarian cancers are great examples, but they are applicable only to a small percentage -- less than one percent -- of women. - Andrew Feinberg

We now have definitive evidence for doing something proactively that will prevent women with Lynch syndrome from ever getting either endometrial, or ovarian cancers, or even both. - Karen Lu

We all believe that oral contraceptives protect against ovarian cancer... Most of us believe that estrogen protects against coronary heart disease. We all believe that smoking causes lung cancer. - Leon Speroff

Unfortunately, ovarian failure was the grimmest diagnoses we could have received. - Amy Fisher

This would perhaps be a tool for earlier diagnosis of ovarian cancer in the future. - Professor Michael Krainer

This study is a very important reminder to physicians to pay particular attention to a woman's family history of colon, endometrial and ovarian cancers, with genetic counseling becoming of utmost importance. If women with Lynch syndrome are identified, there needs to be coordinated care between the gastrointestinal and obstetrics and gynecologic medical disciplines. - Karen Lu