Researchers have made progress in treating ovarian cancer through surgery and chemotherapy. Yet the disease remains tough to treat because it has often spread by the time it is diagnosed.

Chemotherapy works well in treating newly diagnosed patients with ovarian cancer. But if the cancer returns, it can become resistant to chemotherapy. MD Anderson researchers Yunfei Wen, Ph.D., and Vahid Afshar-Kharghan, M.D., are focused on finding...