91.   In addition to helping to prevent ovarian cancer, pill use reduces the risk of developing ovarian cysts, which often result in the loss of an ovary.

92.   In ovarian cancer, it proved impossible to even conduct a trial of bone marrow transplants.

93.   In previous studies conducted among American and Canadian women and published last September, ovarian cancer was linked to a diet high in saturated fats and low in vegetables.

94.   In small, limited trials it has also shown a measurable response against ovarian cancer and metastatic breast cancer.

95.   In some clinics, women with advanced breast or ovarian cancer are being given smaller, more frequent doses of chemotherapy to reduce side effects.

96.   In Maine, a researcher recently gave up on a trial in ovarian cancer because she could not persuade enough people to participate.

97.   In the first study, women who had received prior chemotherapy for advanced ovarian cancer were given Taxol in combination with another Bristol-Myers cancer drug, Paraplatin.

98.   In some cases, women do indeed inherit a damaged gene that predisposes them to breast or ovarian cancer.

99.   Indeed, experts estimate that traditional, or first-line, therapy fails in about half of all ovarian cancer patients.

100.   In the most crass terms, it is harder to enlist donors and government sources of financing against ovarian cancer than other diseases.