New treatment possibilities for young women diagnosed with rare form of ovarian cancer

A recent finding by researchers at the BC Cancer Research Institute and the University of British Columbia (UBC) may offer a new treatment possibility for people diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of ovarian cancer.

“Finding this vulnerability and identifying a way to exploit it could have a huge impact for anyone diagnosed with this rare disease,” said the study’s first author Jennifer Ji, an MD/Ph.D. candidate at UBC’s faculty of medicine and trainee at the BC Cancer Research Institute.

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