H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
TAMPA, Fla. — Ovarian cancer is a difficult to diagnose malignancy that is often caught at a more advanced stage. Treatments for this cancer have changed little over the past few decades, with surgery and chemotherapy being the most common therapeutic approaches. Immunotherapy, a type of treatment that activates a patient's immune system to target cancer cells, has been successful in many diseases but not ovarian cancer and it is unclear why.
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center want to improve their understanding of the immune environment in ovarian cancer in hopes of making immunotherapy an option for these patients. In a new study
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