Florian Heitz

No ORCID on file · 6 papers in corpus · active 2014-2021

Study types

  • article 3
  • other 3

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 6
article 2021
The Journal of Pathology ·doi:10.1002/path.5849

Abstract ARID1A (BAF250a) is a component of the SWI/SNF chromatin modifying complex, plays an important tumour suppressor role, and is considered prognostic in several malignancies. However, in ovarian carcinomas there are contradictory rep…

other 2017
Cancer causes & control : CCC ·doi:10.1007/s10552-016-0841-3

PURPOSE: Cancer antigen 125 (CA125) is a glycoprotein expressed by epithelial cells of several normal tissue types and overexpressed by several epithelial cancers. Serum CA125 levels are mostly used as an aid in the diagnosis of ovarian can…

article 2015
·doi:10.1158/1557-3265.ovcasymp14-as13

Abstract Background: CA125 is elevated in 80% of ovarian cancer cases and has proven utility in assessing response to therapy and prognosis. Unfortunately, CA125 is elevated in a variety of benign conditions and only in 50% of early stage o…

other 2015
Journal of genetics and genome research ·doi:10.23937/2378-3648/1410017

Disruption in circadian gene expression, whether due to genetic variation or environmental factors (e.g., light at night, shiftwork), is associated with increased incidence of breast, prostate, gastrointestinal and hematologic cancers and g…

article 2015
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.09.023
other 2014
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…