Robert Edwards

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2013-2017

Study types

  • other 2
  • article 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
other 2017
History of Comorbidities and Survival of Ovarian Cancer Patients, Results from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology ·doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-17-0367

Background: Comorbidities can affect survival of ovarian cancer patients by influencing treatment efficacy. However, little evidence exists on the association between individual concurrent comorbidities and prognosis in ovarian cancer patie…

other 2014
Risk of ovarian cancer and the NF-κB pathway: genetic association with IL1A and TNFSF10
Cancer research ·doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-1051

A missense single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the immune modulatory gene IL1A has been associated with ovarian cancer risk (rs17561). Although the exact mechanism through which this SNP alters risk of ovarian cancer is not clearly unde…

article 2013
Abstract B71: Immune mechanisms that drive early carcinogenesis in endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research ·doi:10.1158/1078-0432.ovca13-b71

Abstract Introduction: Endometriosis is a largely benign, chronic inflammatory disease defined by the presence of endometrial-like glands surrounded by stroma. Epidemiologic studies suggest that endometriosis is an independent risk factor f…