Zikan M

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus · active 2017-2026

Study types

  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 1
  • dyspareunia 1
2026
International journal of cancer ·doi:10.1002/ijc.70354

The DNA methylation-based WID-qEC test, applied to cervico-vaginal samples, has been validated for the accurate detection of endometrial and cervical cancers. However, a small proportion of women test positive despite the absence of these c…

2023
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0281268

Dyspareunia is genital pain before, during or after penile-vaginal sexual intercourse. The prevalence of dyspareunia ranges from 8 to 22%. Sexual intercourse concomitant with a pelvic organic lesion is likely to cause pain in most cases. Ho…

2022
Nature communications ·doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26615-y

The vast majority of epithelial ovarian cancer arises from tissues that are embryologically derived from the Müllerian Duct. Here, we demonstrate that a DNA methylation signature in easy-to-access Müllerian Duct-derived cervical cells from …

other 2017
Genome medicine ·doi:10.1186/s13073-017-0500-7

BACKGROUND: Despite a myriad of attempts in the last three decades to diagnose ovarian cancer (OC) earlier, this clinical aim still remains a significant challenge. Aberrant methylation patterns of linked CpGs analyzed in DNA fragments shed…