Nicole Urban
ORCID: 0000-0001-5516-7922
· 6 papers in corpus
other
2016
Infertility is a risk factor for ovarian cancer (OvCa). The goal was to determine if antibodies to selenium-binding protein 1 (SBP1), an autoantibody we identified in patients with premature ovarian failure (POF), occurs in both infertility…
diagnostic-accuracy
2015
BACKGROUND: Leucine-rich alpha-2-glycoprotein (LRG1) was found to be differentially expressed in sera from patients with Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC). The aim of this study is to investigate the performance of LRG1 for detection of EOC, …
2012
Abstract Epidemiological studies show women with infertility have increased ovarian cancer (OvCa) risk, but biomarkers indicating which women are at increased risk are unavailable. We showed autoantibodies (Abs) are associated with infertil…
diagnostic-accuracy
2011
In screening for epithelial ovarian cancer, unnecessary surgery can be reduced by limiting use of transvaginal ultrasound (TVU) to women with increasing CA125 serum levels. Replacing or augmenting TVU with measurement of a serum marker spec…
observational
2008
OBJECTIVES: To define patterns of aberrant DNA methylation, p53 mutation and Her-2/neu overexpression in tissues from benign (n=29), malignant (n=100), and border line malignant ovaries (n=10), as compared to normal (n=68) ovarian tissues. …
review
2007
A quarter of a century since its discovery, circulating CA125 antigen is recommended for clinical use in the USA for ovarian cancer screening of high-risk women with ovaries, despite its limited sensitivity and specificity. Recent findings …