Dr. Adnan Munkarah, director of gynecologic oncology and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Karmanos Cancer Institute/Wayne State University, said he would like to see both public awareness and research rise. He said studies are showing that there has been steady progress on women living longer with ovarian cancer over the past three decade. "…what we are trying to do is find a protein or molecule to reverse the cancer process," said Munkarah.