Wellbeing of Women

2005 Grants

An international collaboration of ovarian cancer case-control studies for use in genetic associated studies. Dr Paul Pharoah, University of Cambridge £71,931 over 2 years This research has been published in: PLoS ONE. 2007 Mar 7;2:e268; Carcinogenesis. 2006 Nov;27(11):2235-42; Cancer Res. 2006 Oct 15;66(20):10220-6.

An international collaboration of ovarian cancer case-control studies for use in genetic associated studies

This extension to a currently funded research project entitled “Are there interactions between the genetic make-up of an individual and specific factors in the environment that determine risk of ovarian cancer, and can this knowledge be used in prevention?” is to establish and co-ordinate an international collaboration of investigators carrying out genetic association studies in ovarian cancer. The aims of this collaboration are to create a resource of at least 4,000 cases of invasive ovarian cancer and 4,000 controls, and to organize a systematic approach to identifying and testing candidate genes for ovarian cancer.

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