August 31, 2020 - CA-125 stands for Cancer Antigen 125 and is a protein that can be found in higher levels in the blood of women who have ovarian cancer. CA-125 is released into the bloodstream after being produced on the cell surfaces. In about three-quarters of women who have advanced ovarian cancer, the CA-125 will be elevated, and in about half of those with early-stage ovarian cancer, the CA-125 will be elevated. As you can see, while a CA-125 screening test could be useful, it is certainly not without its problems since it can miss half of all early ovarian cancers...

August 09, 2020 - In July 2018, a St. Louis jury awarded nearly $4.7 billion ($4.14 billion in punitive damages and $550 million in compensatory damages) to 22 women and their families, after those women claimed asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder contributed to their ovarian cancer. Up until now, the ovarian cancer claims against J & J focused on the talc fibers, rather than asbestos.

Houston, TX—July 3, 2020—Breaking News: Clients of the Houston Law Firm of Sullo & Sullo obtained an $879 million¹ judgment for the 1996 Khobar Towers Terrorist Attack in Saudi Arabia. The lawsuit was filed in response to the June 25, 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers apartment complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. This apartment complex housed United States military personnel, including the fourteen service-member plaintiffs named in the lawsuit, as well as twenty-one family members of those service-members.

June 13, 2020 - Once these fibers—foreign bodies to the body—embed in the ovaries, inflammation occurs. Years and years of this inflammation can...new research, which was presented at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology in Honolulu, a scientific team showed a clear link between talc and inflammation in...Most of the evidence which links a woman’s use of talcum powder to an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer is taken from two case-control studies done in...

June 05, 2020 - Factors that have been shown to mildly alter the risk of a woman being diagnosed with ovarian cancer is giving birth, maintaining a healthy weight, and using oral contraceptives. Overall, ovarian cancer is more common among older women, but there are certain types of ovarian cancer that are more common in younger women. Having endometriosis also seems...