Matthew S Block

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus

review 2026

Serum Interleukin-6 Levels in Endometriosis and Endometriosis-Associated Ovarian Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Demonstrating a Biological Gradient

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.jmig.2026.06.015

OBJECTIVE: This study quantifies serum/plasma interleukin-6 levels across the healthy-nonendometriosis, benign-endometriosis-ovarian cancer spectrum, focusing on pooled geometric means stratified by control type. DATA SOURCES: PubMed (MEDL…

other 2014

Risk of ovarian cancer and the NF-κB pathway: genetic association with IL1A and TNFSF10

Cancer research ·doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-1051

A missense single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the immune modulatory gene IL1A has been associated with ovarian cancer risk (rs17561). Although the exact mechanism through which this SNP alters risk of ovarian cancer is not clearly unde…