August Vidal
ORCID: 0000-0001-5727-2099
· 11 papers in corpus
other
2026
BACKGROUND: Most patients with ovarian cancer are diagnosed at a late stage because of the lack of early stage symptoms or effective screening methods. To address this issue, we evaluated the presence of DNA somatic variants in cervicovagin…
observational
2022
Screenwide is a case-control study (2017−2021) including women with incident endometrial and ovarian cancers (EC and OC), BRCA1/2 and MMR pathogenic variant carriers, and age-matched controls from three centers in Spain. Participants comple…
other
2021
Ectonucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase-2 (NTPDase2/CD39L1) has been described in human non-pathological endometrium in both epithelial and stromal components without changes along the cycle. It was identified as a stromal marker of …
other
2019
Endometriosis is a prevalent disease defined by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterus. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), as a proinflammatory molecule, promotes and helps maintain the inflammatory state of endometriosis. Moreove…
other
2019
The human endometrium undergoes repetitive regeneration cycles in order to recover the functional layer, shed during menses. The basal layer, which remains in charge of endometrial regeneration in every cycle, contains adult stem or progeni…
observational
2017
PROBLEM: The diagnosis of endometriosis, a prevalent chronic disease with a strong inflammatory component, is usually delayed due to the lack of noninvasive diagnostic tests. Purinergic signaling, a key cell pathway, is altered in many infl…
lab-animal
2017
Targeted therapies in endometrial cancer (EC) using kinase inhibitors rarely result in complete tumor remission and are frequently challenged by the appearance of refractory cell clones, eventually resulting in disease relapse. Dissecting a…
review
2017
There have been no major improvements in the overall survival of ovarian cancer patients in recent decades. Even though more accurate surgery and more effective treatments are available, the mortality rate remains high. Given the difference…
other
2016
Endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of the female genital tract in developed countries. Although the majority of endometrial cancers are diagnosed at early stages and the 5-year overall survival is around 80%, early detection of th…
2016
other
2014
Endometriosis, defined as the growth of endometrial tissue outside the uterus, is a common gynecologic condition affecting millions of women worldwide. It is an inflammatory, estrogen-dependent complex disorder, with broad symptomatic varia…