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Levels of two proteins in a woman’s ovarian cancer are strongly associated with her likelihood of survival, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports in the Dec. 18 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study shows that women with high levels of Dicer and Drosha, two proteins that are vital to a cell’s gene-silencing machinery, had a median survival of 11 years.

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