1.   Anything that inhibits ovulation - eg, pregnancy or oral contraception - reduces the risk of ovarian cancer.

2.   In order to diagnose ovarian cancer, you have to do surgery to obtain a biopsy.

3.   Thus the search for a reliable way to detect or even predict ovarian cancer goes on.

4.   Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer contracted by women.

5.   ...a new treatment for ovarian cancer.

6.   Most cases of ovarian cancer arise on the epithelial surface of the ovary, not in the ovary itself.

7.   Anything that inhibits ovulation -- eg, pregnancy or oral contraception -- reduces the risk of ovarian cancer.

8.   Among the species threatened include Taxus baccata, a Himalayan yew which may yield a chemical that arrests ovarian cancer.

9.   FAMILIES with a history of both breast and ovarian cancer have the same inherited gene defect, scientists announced yesterday.