A proportion of adenocarcinomas in prophylactic adnexectomies (bilateral salpingo-oophorectomies
[BSOs]) from women with BRCA mutations (BRCA positive) occur in the fallopian …

Background Endometriosis is a risk factor for epithelial ovarian cancer; however, whether
this risk extends to all invasive histological subtypes or borderline tumours is not clear. We …

Entrapment of surface epithelium within the ovarian stroma was proposed as an initial event
in the pathogenesis of cystadenocarcinoma of the ovary. Subsequent events, including …

Advances in understanding the epidemiology of endometriosis have lagged behind other
diseases because of methodologic problems related to disease definition and control selection…

ContextDevelopment of new biomarkers for ovarian cancer is needed for early detection and
disease monitoring. Analyses involving complementary DNA (cDNA) microarray data can …

Controversy surrounds the relations among infertility, fertility drug use, and the risk of ovarian
cancer. The authors pooled interview data on infertility and fertility drug use from eight case-…

We compared menstrual characteristics and constitutional factors in 268 white women with
primary infertility due to endometriosis and in 3,794 white women admitted for delivery at …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified four susceptibility loci for
epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), with another two suggestive loci reaching near genome-wide …

Because few well-designed epidemiologic studies exist, the incidence, prevalence, and risk
factors for endometriosis remain uncertain. However, despite the relative paucity of studies, …

Several studies have examined the association between body mass index and infertility. We
compared body mass index in 597 women diagnosed with ovulatory infertility at seven …