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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Perets R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3917315 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cancer cell 20131201 6
High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma presents significant clinical and therapeutic challenges. Although the traditional model of carcinogenesis has focused on the ovary as a tumor initiation site, recent studies suggest that there may be additional sites of origin outside the ovary, namely the secretory cells of the fallopian tube. Our study demonstrates that high-grade serous tumors can originate in fallopian tubal secretory epithelial cells and also establishes serous tubal intraepithelial carc ...[more]