Catherine M. Olsen

ORCID: 0000-0003-4483-1888 · 4 papers in corpus · active 2007-2023

Study types

  • article 2
  • meta-analysis 1
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
  • infertility 1
meta-analysis 2023
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-023-01323-z

Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility. A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 controls of European and East Asian descent, identified 42 genom…

other 2008
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) ·doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2008.07.009

Endometrioid and clear cell subtypes of ovarian cancer are both known to be closely associated with endometriosis and endometrial pathology, and so have often been combined in studies of causation. We have examined these ovarian cancers sep…

article 2008
·doi:10.1677/erc-08-0075

In 1998, Risch proposed a hypothesis for the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer relating to the role of androgens in stimulating epithelial cell proliferation. Although this hypothesis has been widely discussed, direct evidence to support it is…

article 2007

B113 PURPOSE: Epidemiological evidence suggests that endometriosis and other endometrial pathologies increase risk of ovarian cancer but that this increased risk is related almost exclusively to the clear cell and endometrioid subtypes of o…