Ovarian cancer etiology

Demonstrate understanding of the etiology and risk factors associated with the development of ovarian cancer. 

Breast and ovarian cancer share responsiveness to steroid hormones, and incidence of the vast majority of tumors in the epithelial rather than the stromal component. In addition, these diseases appear to share etiologic factors Women with one kind of tumor have an increased risk of developing the other type of tumor. Whereas normal ovarian tissue does not overexpress ErbB-... 

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