Caren Begun for Penn Medicine News: “‘For a long time experts studied the ovaries in the hopes of finding answers to assist with earlier diagnosis and detection of ovarian cancer, so knowing that these tumors start in the fallopian tubes opens up so many possibilities for prevention and detection, which can have a tremendous impact on standard of care for these patients,’ said Ronny Drapkin, MD, PhD, director of the OCRC, an associate professor of Pathology in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a gynecologic cancer researcher with the Basser Center at Penn. ‘We’re even seeing this in the news today, with Chris Evert’s early ovarian cancer diagnosis, which was found in the fallopian tube after she was tested for a BRCA mutation.'”
