Noel S. Weiss

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in the United States. Substantial epidemiologic data implicate an imbalance of estrogens and progestogens in the etiology of this disease. We propose that inflamma-tion also plays…

ObjectiveUsing a medical record abstraction-based case-control study with two control groups, we evaluated adenomyosis risk factors and investigated differences related to comparison group selection.Materials and methodsMedical records of a…

ObjectiveSome forms of ovarian neoplasms may be preventable through the removal of precursor lesions. We assessed the risk associated with a prior diagnosis of, and ovarian surgery following, ovarian cysts and endometriosis, with a focus on…

This paper proposes a standard definition of endometriotic disease for epidemiologic studies and suggests subject-selection strategies to increase the validity of clinic- or population-based studies of the disease. Although endometriosis ca…

In order to explore possible etiologic differences between tubal infertility in women who had been physician-diagnosed as having pelvic inflammatory disease ("overt" PID) and in women who had not ("silent" pelvic inflammatory disease), we m…