L Dubeau

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus

review 2013

Coming into focus: the nonovarian origins of ovarian cancer

Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology ·doi:10.1093/annonc/mdt308

BACKGROUND: The traditional view of epithelial ovarian cancer asserts that all tumor subtypes share a common origin in the ovarian surface epithelium (OSE) DESIGN: A literature review was carried out to summarize the emerging understanding …

review 1999

The cell of origin of ovarian epithelial tumors and the ovarian surface epithelium dogma: does the emperor have no clothes?

Gynecologic Oncology ·doi:10.1006/gyno.1998.5275

The widely favored hypothesis that ovarian epithelial tumors arise from the mesothelial cell layer lining the ovarian surface fails to explain the resemblance of these tumors to those arising in organs that are embryologically derived from …