Ovarian cancer is the fifth largest killer of women, with a woman having a 1 in 75 chance of contracting it and a 1 in a 100 chance of dying from it. Who contracts it – and who survives – often comes down to who has it diagnosed the earliest.
Read MoreOvarian cancer is the fifth most lethal cancer among American women, and it accounts for more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system. Fortunately, scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are hard at work evening those odds, and they have just made a breakthrough.
Read MoreMore than just a painful woman's disease – and it certainly is that! – endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women of reproductive age and raises the level of depression of the chronically afflicted by 15 to 20 percent.
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