Ovarian cancers may begin in fallopian tube Apr 18, 2008
Ovarian cancers may originate in fallopian tube ... NEW YORK - New research suggests that fallopian tube cells rather than ovarian surface cells are the probable site of origin of most cases of ovarian serous carcinoma, the most common type of ovarian cancer ... Levanon and colleagues studied a group of women at very high risk for ovarian cancer due to family history who underwent removal of their fallopian tubes and ovaries as a preventive measure. (MSNBC -- Health)
* Report shows cancer rates rise Apr 12, 2008
Among women, the top 10 most prevalent types of cancer were breast cancer, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, cancer of the trachea, bronchus and lungs, cervical cancer, stomach cancer, thyroid cancer, skin cancer, uterine cancer, and cancer of the ovary, fallopian tube and broad ligament. During the 2001 to 2005 period, the cancer incidence rate for men increased by 3. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
More contraception choices for women 40+ Apr 7, 2008
Instead of cutting through the abdomen to cut and tie the fallopian tubes, a doctor works through the cervix, using a thin tube to thread small devices into each fallopian tube. These cause scarring, which in about three months plugs the tubes, stopping eggs from the ovaries from reaching the uterus. (Xinhuanet, China)
Oregon Transgender 'Man' Claims 'He's' Pregnant Mar 27, 2008
"It was a life-threatening event that required surgical intervention, resulting in the loss of all embryos and my right fallopian tube," Beatie said. "When my brother found out about my loss, he said, 'It s a good thing that happened. Who knows what kind of monster it would have been.' Beatie told the magazine the couple had begun experiencing anger from people offended by their decision. "Doctors have discriminated against us, turning us away due to their religious beliefs. (Fox News)
What is Abstinence-Only Sex Ed? Mar 16, 2008
A. The FACTS curriculum uses leading language to imply life begins at fertilization: After conception, the tiny baby moves down the fallopian tube toward the mother's uterus. About the sixth to tenth day after conception, when the baby is no bigger than this dot. (Suite101.com)
Soldier returns from Iraq, becomes surprise parent Mar 15, 2008
"At first," Tony said, "they thought it was ectopic [lodged in a fallopian tube]. But then they came out and said we would have a child. "I thought, 'Yea, someday I hope,' but they said, 'No, you'll have a child tonight. " Normita was in labor with a baby that was determined to be in its 38th week. At 4:49 a.m., she gave birth to Lathan Anthony Novak, a healthy 6 pound, 15 ounce boy who stretched the tape to 19 inches. Normita, who is of normal body shape and a college soccer player, never knew... (Mt. Pleasant News, IA)
Obituaries for Monday, March 3, 2008 Mar 3, 2008
On March 1, 2008, Debra M. Buhr passed away from a 2-year battle with fallopian tube cancer, at the age of 51. She is survived by her husband, Victor J. Buhr III; and her son, Cade M. Elliott of Holmen; one stepson, Victor J. Buhr IV of La Crescent, Minn. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
'Silicon womb' for better embryos Mar 1, 2008
However, he confessed that the Anecova capsule will not be placed exactly at the place where an early embryo would naturally develop, inside one of the fallopian tubes ... "It's a lot closer to a fallopian tube than a plastic tray, but this new device is not an artificial fallopian tube. The trials will tell us whether the environment in the womb will do instead," said Laurence Shaw from the Bridge Centre fertility clinic in London and a spokesman for the British Fertility Society. (Times of India)
Woman Told She Couldn't Conceive Has 9; Twins on Way Feb 28, 2008
All the children, except for the Cunsamys' eldest daughter, were conceived after Melissa Cunsamy suffered an ectopic pregnancy and had a fallopian tube removed, which decreased her already slim chances of conceiving. Now, the couple have quit their jobs to look after their increasing family. (Fox News)
Reusable camera pill would be about $300 Feb 8, 2008
Cameras the size of pills could "put eyes on tools" for laparoscopic surgery, snake inside a bile duct or fallopian tube, or weave their way deeper inside a person's lungs than any non-surgical device has been able to go. Unlike a standard endoscope, which is almost a centimeter wide and can only be inserted into the esophagus after a patient is sedated, a new device invented at the University of Washington consists of seven fiber optic cables encased in a capsule about the size of a typical... (CNN -- Tech)
Pill-Sized Camera Can Be Swallowed Feb 7, 2008
Cameras the size of pills could "put eyes on tools" for laparoscopic surgery, snake inside a bile duct or fallopian tube, or weave their way deeper inside a person's lungs than any non-surgical device has been able to go. Top Technology ce stories. (ABC News -- Wire)
Prince Edward's baby son taken to hospital with mystery illness Jan 26, 2008
She was airlifted to hospital where she underwent surgery to have the foetus removed from a Fallopian tube. The following year, she became pregnant again after undergoing fertility treatment but in her 36th week she was admitted to Frimley Park Hospital after complaining of severe internal pains. (Times Online)
Civic Leader Loses Battle With Cancer Jan 16, 2008
-- Kimball Lauritzen, a longtime Omaha civic leader and well-known humanitarian for Nebraska, died Monday evening after a nine-year battle with a rare and aggressive cancer of the fallopian tube. She was 63. (7 KETV Omaha)
Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Announces Filing of Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial with REOLYSIN(R) Jan 3, 2008
CALGARY, Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced today that the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) has filed a protocol with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a Phase 1/2 clinical trial for patients with metastatic ovarian, peritoneal or fallopian tube cancers using concurrent systemic and intraperitoneal administration of REOLYSIN(R), Oncolytics' proprietary formulation of the human reovirus ... The trial, which is... (PR Newswire)
Callaway wins ruling vs. Acushnet in golf ball case Dec 15, 2007
The alternative procedure takes about 15 minutes to complete and involves radio signals to create a lesion inside the fallopian tube. (AP). (Boston Globe)
FDA Advisory Panel Finds Hologic's Adiana(R) Permanent Contraception Approvable Dec 14, 2007
First, a catheter is positioned immediately inside the opening of the patient's fallopian tube using a hysteroscope, eliminating the need for any incisions. The catheter applies a very low-level of bi-polar radiofrequency (RF) energy to remove just a thin layer of cells that line a 1cm section of the inside of the fallopian tube ... The procedure is then repeated on the other fallopian tube. (PR Newswire)
Panel OKs alternative to getting tubes tied Dec 14, 2007
The alternative procedure recommended takes about 15 minutes to complete and involves using radio signals to create a lesion inside the fallopian tube. A catheter delivers a soft material smaller than a grain of rice into the tube. (MSNBC -- Health)
Women Could Get New Kind Of Sterilization Dec 14, 2007
Small Material Blocks Fallopian Tubes ... The alternative procedure takes about 15 minutes to complete and involves using radio signals to create a lesion inside the fallopian tube. (WNBC.com, NY)
Obesity Reduces Chances Of Spontaneous Pregnancy In Women Who Are Subfertile But Ovulating Normally Dec 13, 2007
The women had to be ovulating and have at least one, correctly functioning fallopian tube; the men had to have a normal semen analysis. A fertility history and other details, including height, weight and smoking habits, were taken at the start of the study and the couples were followed until pregnancy or the start of fertility treatment within 12 months. (Science Daily)
Obesity hurts a woman's chances of conception Dec 12, 2007
The women had to be ovulating and have at least one working Fallopian tube, and the men had to have a normal semen analysis. The researchers found that women with a BMI of 30 or higher had significantly lower probability of becoming pregnant naturally, compared with normal weight women who had BMIs of between 21 and 29. (Reuters UK)
Continuereading Nov 22, 2007
An ectopic pregnancy occurs when an embryo starts to develop in a fallopian tube instead of in the womb. Vanity Fair reported this as a miscarriage, but Kidman, now 40, makes clear the miscarriage came at the end of her marriage, shortly before Cruise filed for divorce in 2001. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Broun bill would ban all abortion Nov 15, 2007
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The Whig in a wig Nov 3, 2007
Eventually, they divorced (leaving her, she said, "gesticulating at the wrong end of a fallopian tube"), and Mortimer married another Penelope - "the new Penny" - with whom he found what he had expected all along: "somebody nice and good and sensible". He was regularly unfaithful to her, too, but concealed it better; she understood, she said, his "need to keep the love of all the women in his life". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Catholics look to ease the pain of infertility Oct 15, 2007
One example is lower tubal ovum transfer, where a blocked egg is moved from the upper to the lower part of the fallopian tube and fertilized there ... "I don't have a solution for somebody who has a total blockage of both fallopian tubes," she said. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Coping with pregnancy loss Sep 28, 2007
Tubal or ectopic pregnancy occurs outside the uterus, most commonly in the fallopian tube. Until a woman has two to three pregnancy losses, she is probably not at significant risk for subsequent loss, explains Aronson. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Sterilization without surgery well received Jul 7, 2007
Most women seeking to be sterilized now have their fallopian tubes "tied" or blocked, which involves surgery and 4 to 6 days of recovery ... During implantation, the physician inserts one of the devices into each of the two fallopian tubes ... This is done with a catheter that is inserted through the vagina into the uterus, and then into the fallopian tube. (Scientific American)
Diagnosis or distraction? Jul 4, 2007
Stage 2 Cancer spreads to the uterus, fallopian tube or other pelvic structures. The disease is 70 percent to 80 percent curable. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Tube-tying procedure not be permanent in some cases Jul 3, 2007
A: Having the "tubes tied" also known as "tubal ligation," involves cutting, clipping or burning the ends of a woman's fallopian tubes ... If a large amount of fallopian tube was destroyed by the original tubal operation, that won't interfere with reconnecting the two ends ... That's pretty good odds, considering that the fallopian tubes were damaged beyond repair. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
Clues to stress-infertility link Jul 2, 2007
Some studies have shown that high stress levels may also cause fallopian tube spasm in women and decreased sperm production in men. Stress effects. (BBC News -- Health)
New Study Shows Doxorubicin Plus Paclitaxel Followed by Weekly Paclitaxel as Adjuvant Therapy for High Risk Breast Cancer Warranted in Place of Doxorubicin Plus Cyclophosphamide Followed by Paclitaxel Jun 5, 2007
-- Daniel Von Hoff, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer: The Complete Phase lb Clinical Trial: A Method to Accelerate New Agent Development -- Michael Teneriello, M.D., Co-Chair, Gynecologic Cancer Research Committee, US Oncology Research: Results of a Phase II evaluation of nanoparticle albumin bound paclitaxel (nab-paclitaxel) in platinum- sensitive patients with recurrent ovarian, peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer -- Patrick Timmins, III, M.D.: Preliminary results of an open-label study to... (PR Newswire)
Glaxo drug shrinks tumors in kidney cancer study Jun 3, 2007
Glaxo is also beginning to study pazopanib in patients with cancer of the ovary, fallopian tube or peritoneum who failed standard platinum-based therapy. The company released data on Saturday that showed a decrease in biological activity, as measured by a decrease in biologic marker CA-125, in nine of 22 patients whose cancer had relapsed. (Scientific American)
New data highlighting ABRAXANE as single agent and in combination for the treatment of breast, lung and ovarian cancers to be presented at ASCO May 30, 2007
Data from company and investigator-sponsored studies in breast, lung and ovarian cancer will be presented during the poster presentations including: BREAST CANCER ------------- Randomized study comparing nab-paclitaxel with solvent-based paclitaxel in Chinese patients (pts) with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) (Abstract 1038) Poster Presentation: Saturday, June 2, 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Room S403 Poster Discussion: Saturday, June 2, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., Room S406 (Vista Room) NCCTG Phase II trial... (Canada Newswire)
Cancer Gene Carriers Cut Risk with Ovarian Surgery May 29, 2007
Previously undetected ovarian and fallopian tube cancers were found in 4 women at the time of surgery. Before surgery, these women had normal ultrasound scans and levels of the tumor marker CA125. (MEDLINEplus)
Once a newsmaker, nation's first in vitro baby now covers the news May 22, 2007
But years later, three ectopic pregnancies _ in which a fertilized egg becomes stuck in a damaged fallopian tube on its way to the uterus _ made it plain that to Carr and her husband Roger that the usual route to parenthood was not an option. "Roger and I just knew we were going to have children," Carr said. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease May 19, 2007
fallopian tubes extending from the uterus towards the ovaries allowing passage of eggs and sperm (salpingitis) ... The inflammatory response to PID may result in scarring and blockage of the fallopian tubes, which can lead to infertility and/or ectopic pregnancy ... Scarring of the fallopian tubes may prevent eggs from reaching the uterus, and/or prevent sperm cells from reaching eggs. (Suite101.com)
Couple's necessity was the mother of invention May 12, 2007
Doctors there discovered she had a punctured Fallopian tube and she underwent surgery to repair it. But the couple could not conceive and their sorrow, Mr. Khan explained, was only made worse by the shame. (Globe and Mail)
Pioneer chose to publish, not patent Apr 17, 2007
Bongso forged ahead, concentrating on growing the stem cells on fallopian tube cells, which had proved to be the trick with embryos. His method never allowed the stem cells to grow past two generations. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
Ovarian Cancer May Mimic Fallopian Tube Formation Mar 14, 2007
A new study suggests that ovarian cancer cells form by hijacking a developmental genetic process normally used to form fallopian tubes. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ovarian Cancer Institute discovered that the protein, PAX8, is involved in the development of fallopian tubes and is present in ovarian cancer cells, but not in normal ovarian tissue ... "Our finding sustains the promise of a molecular genetic understanding of different cancers and emphasizes the... (Science Daily)
Female Tubal Reversal Feb 11, 2007
Female sterilizations are done either by a tubal ligation (cutting the fallopian tubes), electrocoagulation (burning the tubes to seal them off) or by putting clips on them to prevent the egg from passing through into the womb ... Reversals are done by passing an ultra thin tube through the two cut ends of the fallopian tubes to reconnect them ... Ocassionally, if the electrocoagulation method was used, there may not be enough fallopian tube remaining. (Suite101.com)
Surrogate relishes unique role Jan 23, 2007
A second embryo had lodged in her fallopian tube. She had emergency surgery. (USA Today)
Genentech Q4 2006 Earnings Call Transcript Jan 11, 2007
Turning to Omnitarg, last week, we announced that the small Phase II Omnitarg study and platinum resistance ovarian primary peritoneal or fallopian tube cancer resulted in an improvement in progression-free survival in the gemcitabine and Omnitarg arm, compared to the gemcitabine-alone arm. Advanced ovarian cancer is difficult to treat with few approved treatment options and we are encouraged by the results of this trial. (Seeking Alpha)
* Oil, gas companies drag European bourses lower Jan 7, 2007
9 percent, after the company and US biotech partner Genentech said that results from a randomized Phase II study comparing pertuzumab plus gemcitabine to gemcitabine alone in women with fallopian tube cancer were encouraging. Other pharmaceutical companies, such as AstraZeneca and Novartis, were also trading positively, up more than 1 percent. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Stocks to Watch, Jan. 5 Jan 5, 2007
Genentech Inc. () reported "encouraging" results from a Phase II study comparing pertuzumab plus gemcitabine to gemcitabine alone in women with platinum-resistant ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer. The study enrolled and treated 130 women, and no new or unexpected safety signals were observed, Genentech said. (Fox News)
