Ness R

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus · active 2013-2020

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  • article 1
  • other 1

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  • endometriosis 2
2020
Identification of novel epithelial ovarian cancer loci in women of African ancestry.
International journal of cancer ·doi:10.1002/ijc.32653

Women of African ancestry have lower incidence of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) yet worse survival compared to women of European ancestry. We conducted a genome-wide association study in African ancestry women with 755 EOC cases, includin…

other 2018
Racial/ethnic differences in the epidemiology of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of 12 case-control studies
International journal of epidemiology ·doi:10.1093/ije/dyx252

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer incidence differs substantially by race/ethnicity, but the reasons for this are not well understood. Data were pooled from the African American Cancer Epidemiology Study (AACES) and 11 case-control studies in the …

article 2015
LIFETIME RISK OF OVARIAN CANCER BASED ON ENDOMETRIOSIS AND OTHER RISK FACTORS
International journal of gynecological cancer : official journal of the International Gynecological Cancer Society ·doi:10.1097/00009577-201505001-00039
2013
Obesity and risk of ovarian cancer subtypes: evidence from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium.
Endocrine-related cancer ·doi:10.1530/erc-12-0395

Whilst previous studies have reported that higher BMI increases a woman's risk of developing ovarian cancer, associations for the different histological subtypes have not been well defined. As the prevalence of obesity has increased dramati…