Brenda Diergaarde

ORCID: 0000-0002-3578-6547 · 7 papers in corpus
preprint 2023
·doi:10.1158/1055-9965.c.6515916.v1

AbstractBackground: 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 canc…

preprint 2023
·doi:10.1158/1055-9965.c.6515916

AbstractBackground: 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 canc…

2023
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research ·doi:10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-22-3168

PurposeTo assess whether MUC1 peptide vaccine produces an immune response and prevents subsequent colon adenoma formation.Patients and methodsMulticenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial in individuals age 40 to 70 with di…

2019
Cancer causes & control : CCC ·doi:10.1007/s10552-019-01157-3

PurposePrevious epidemiologic studies have shown that smoking, obesity, and physical inactivity are associated with poor survival following a diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Yet, the combined relationship of these unfavorable lifestyle factors…

2018
Cancer causes & control : CCC ·doi:10.1007/s10552-017-0997-5

PurposeMultiple studies have examined the role of anthropometric characteristics in ovarian cancer risk and survival; however, their results have been conflicting. We investigated the associations between weight change, height and height ch…

other 2017
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…

2012
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-12-0426

BackgroundPrevious studies examining associations between use of fertility drugs and ovarian cancer risk have provided conflicting results. We used data from a large case-control study to determine whether fertility drug use significantly i…