Amy L. Shafrir

Oral contraceptives (OCs) have been associated with long-term lower endometrial cancer risk; relatively little is known about associations with more recent OC formulations and associations with longer-term risk. A total of 107,069 women fro…

ObjectivePelvic floor pain, abdominal wall pain, and central nervous system pain amplification can be contributing factors in chronic pelvic pain (CPP), however; limited research has investigated the association of pelvic floor, abdominal, …

STUDY QUESTION: How accurately do women report a diagnosis of endometriosis on self-administered questionnaires? SUMMARY ANSWER: Based on the analysis of four international cohorts, women self-report endometriosis fairly accurately with a >…

(Abstracted from Hum Reprod 2021;36:1268–1278) Approximately 10% of reproductive-aged women are affected by endometriosis, a condition in which endometrial-like tissue is found outside of the uterus causing severe pain and infertility. Diag…

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Endometriosis is a painful gynecologic disease affecting one in ten reproductive aged women worldwide. Few studies have correlated this symptomatology with biomarker levels among women with and without endometriosis, and no studies correlat…

Endometriosis can lead to life-impacting symptoms and substantial costs. Most research treats endometriosis as a single entity-potentially obscuring informative subtype-specific risk factor, biomarker, and treatment response associations. A…

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer survival is poor, particularly for platinum-resistant cases. The previous literature on pre-diagnostic reproductive factors and ovarian cancer survival has been mixed. Therefore, we evaluated pre-diagnostic reprod…