WORLD OF REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY: Origins of Ovarian Cancer

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Cranes of the World: 5. Comparative Reproductive Biology

Origins of Modern Biology

The new book has three parts, consisting of bacterial physiology, im-munology, and virology. The aim is to provide a text for college and graduate students taking general microbiology or immunology. It reduces the bulk and expense of the parent volume by deleting chapters on antimicrobial defences of the host and pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and viruses. The main emphasis is on molecular genetic...

Coming into focus: the nonovarian origins of ovarian cancer.

BACKGROUND The traditional view of epithelial ovarian cancer asserts that all tumor subtypes share a common origin in the ovarian surface epithelium (OSE) DESIGN: A literature review was carried out to summarize the emerging understanding of extraovarian sources of epithelial ovarian carcinomas. RESULTS Historically, there were no diagnostic criteria for documenting the origin of ovarian epit...

Reproductive and hormonal factors and ovarian cancer.

BACKGROUND Menstrual, reproductive and hormonal factors have been related to ovarian cancer risk, but further quantification of their role in various populations is required. PATIENTS AND METHODS Cases were 1031 women, below age 79, with incident, histologically confirmed epithelial ovarian cancer, and controls 2411 women, admitted between 1992 and 1999 to a network of hospitals in 4 Italian ...