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David Gershenson on Challenges to Advancing Treatment for Rare Ovarian Cancers

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David Gershenson, M.D.
Conference|Ovarian Cancer National Conference

David Gershenson, M.D., of MD Anderson Cancer Center, explains the difficulty of advancing treatment of rare ovarian cancers: malignant ovarian germ cell tumors, sex cord stromal tumors, and types of epithelial tumors such as ovarian clear cell carcinoma, ovarian low-grade serous carcinoma, and mucinous tumors.

David Gershenson, M.D., of MD Anderson Cancer Center, explains the difficulty of advancing treatment of rare ovarian cancers: malignant ovarian germ cell tumors, sex cord stromal tumors, and types of epithelial tumors such as ovarian clear cell carcinoma, ovarian low-grade serous carcinoma, and mucinous tumors. With such a low number of cases and not much interest from pharmaceutical companies, it is hard to conduct clinical trials in these areas.

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