Abstract Purpose of Review Endometriosis is a disease of adolescents and reproductive-
aged women characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity …

BACKGROUND Despite an estimated prevalence of 10% in women, the etiology of
endometriosis remains poorly understood. Over recent decades, endometriosis has been …

BACKGROUND Endometriosis is an often chronic, inflammatory gynaecologic condition
affecting 190 million women worldwide. Studies have reported an elevated cancer risk …

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 …

Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility.
A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 …

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

Epithelial ovarian cancer has a major heritable component, but the known susceptibility
genes explain less than half the excess familial risk. We performed a genome-wide …

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the leading cause of death from gynecological
malignancy in the developed world, accounting for 4% of the deaths from cancer in women …

Whilst previous studies have reported that higher BMI increases a woman's risk of
developing ovarian cancer, associations for the different histological subtypes have not …

Background Regular aspirin use is associated with reduced risk of several malignancies.
Epidemiologic studies analyzing aspirin, nonaspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug …