Fighting ovarian cancer: Study gives hope – mRNA active ingredient can kill tumors. Every year thousands of women in Germany develop ovarian cancer - and thousands die from it.
The p53 gene is mutated in 96 percent of patients with ovarian cancer. This gene contains the instructions for a protein that normally detects damage in the cell's DNA and triggers repair mechanisms. After treatment, the tumors in the ovaries almost completely disappeared in the animals. In the next step, the scientists would like to test the mRNA on ovarian patients.