[HTML][HTML] Epidemiology of ovarian cancer: a review

BM Reid, JB Permuth, TA Sellers - Cancer biology & medicine, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ovarian cancer (OC) is the seventh most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the
world and the tenth most common in China. Epithelial OC is the most predominant …

Rethinking ovarian cancer II: reducing mortality from high-grade serous ovarian cancer

DD Bowtell, S Böhm, AA Ahmed, PJ Aspuria… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) accounts for 70–80% of ovarian cancer deaths,
and overall survival has not changed significantly for several decades. In this Opinion article …

Risks of breast, ovarian, and contralateral breast cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers

KB Kuchenbaecker, JL Hopper, DR Barnes, KA Phillips… - Jama, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The clinical management ofBRCA1andBRCA2mutation carriers requires
accurate, prospective cancer risk estimates. Objectives To estimate age-specific risks of …

In situ programming of leukaemia-specific T cells using synthetic DNA nanocarriers

TT Smith, SB Stephan, HF Moffett, LE McKnight… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
An emerging approach for treating cancer involves programming patient-derived T cells with
genes encoding disease-specific chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), so that they can …

Genome-wide association studies of cancer: current insights and future perspectives

A Sud, B Kinnersley, RS Houlston - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide an agnostic approach for investigating
the genetic basis of complex diseases. In oncology, GWAS of nearly all common …

Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer

CM Phelan, KB Kuchenbaecker, JP Tyrer, SP Kar… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
To identify common alleles associated with different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer
(EOC), we pooled data from multiple genome-wide genotyping projects totaling 25,509 EOC …

Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

K Michailidou, J Beesley, S Lindstrom, S Canisius… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and large-scale replication studies have
identified common variants in 79 loci associated with breast cancer, explaining∼ 14% of the …

Germline Mutations in the BRIP1, BARD1, PALB2, and NBN Genes in Women With Ovarian Cancer

SJ Ramus, H Song, E Dicks, JP Tyrer… - Journal of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background: Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most lethal gynecological malignancy,
responsible for 13 000 deaths per year in the United States. Risk prediction based on …

Genome-wide association meta-analyses combining multiple risk phenotypes provide insights into the genetic architecture of cutaneous melanoma susceptibility

MT Landi, DT Bishop, S MacGregor, MJ Machiela… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Most genetic susceptibility to cutaneous melanoma remains to be discovered. Meta-analysis
genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 36,760 cases of melanoma (67% newly …

Evaluation of Polygenic Risk Scores for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Prediction in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers

KB Kuchenbaecker, L McGuffog… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 94 common single-
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with breast cancer (BC) risk and 18 …