Amanda B. Spurdle
ORCID: 0000-0003-1337-7897
· 10 papers in corpus
other
2021
Endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and uterine fibroids have been proposed as endometrial cancer risk factors; however, disentangling their relationships with endometrial cancer is complicated due to shared risk factors and com…
article
2020
Abstract Leiomyomas, adenomyosis, and endometriosis are reported to be risk factors for endometrial carcinoma (EC), and adenomyosis and endometriosis also for ovarian carcinoma (OC). We aimed to describe the prevalence of these conditions i…
other
2020
OBJECTIVE: Medical research studies often rely on the manual collection of data from scanned typewritten clinical records, which can be laborious, time consuming and error prone because of the need to review individual clinical records. We …
preprint
2020
Abstract Endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and uterine fibroids have been proposed as endometrial cancer risk factors; however, disentangling their relationships with endometrial cancer is complicated due to shared risk factor…
review
2018
Abstract Epidemiological, biological, and molecular data suggest links between endometriosis and endometrial cancer, with recent epidemiological studies providing evidence for an association between a previous diagnosis of endometriosis and…
2015
BackgroundNulliparity is an endometrial cancer risk factor, but whether or not this association is due to infertility is unclear. Although there are many underlying infertility causes, few studies have assessed risk relations by specific ca…
article
2013
Abstract While endometriosis is a known risk factor for endometrioid and clear-cell ovarian cancer subtypes, a convincing link between endometriosis and endometrial cancer has been difficult to establish epidemiologically. Such a link has b…
2013
BackgroundExperimental and epidemiologic evidence have suggested that chronic inflammation may play a critical role in endometrial carcinogenesis.MethodsTo investigate this hypothesis, a two-stage study was carried out to evaluate single-nu…
other
2011
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between gynecological conditions (including uterine fibroids, endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease and infections of the tubes/womb), and risk of endometrial cancer overall and by histological sub…
other
2004
OBJECTIVE: The progestagenic milieu of pregnancy and oral contraceptive use is protective against epithelial ovarian cancer. A functional single nucleotide polymorphism in the promoter of the progesterone receptor (+331A) alters the relativ…