title: The monkey, the hen, and the mouse: models to advance ovarian cancer chemoprevention.
abstract: This perspective on Romero et al. (beginning on p. 792 in this issue of the journal) discusses the available animal models of ovarian cancer, including the laying hen, non-human primate, and transgenic rodent models, and their relevance to ovarian cancer chemoprevention studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77230-1439, USA. khlu@mdanderson.org
authors.forename: Karen H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Melinda S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Yates
authors.forename: Samuel C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Mok
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008251:Macaca; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*