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Growth factors and ovarian cancer
1 ICRF Medical Oncology Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of death from gynaecological
malignancy developing in about 1 women in 70 and killing 1 in 100.
Annually, it accounts for about 5000 new cases in the UK and 24 000 in
the USA, with approximately 3500 and 13 500 deaths respectively in the
same period. The growth and progression of this disease is driven by a
variety of regulators including growth factors, hormones and cytokines.
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