Stephanie Rockfield

ORCID: 0000-0003-1790-4340 · 3 papers in corpus · active 2016-2019

Study types

  • article 2
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
article 2019

For women in the United States, ovarian cancer (OVCA) represents the deadliest gynecological cancer with over 14,000 deaths predicted to occur in 2019 [13]. Although innovative treatment strategies have improved the 5-year outcome for these…

other 2018
Oncotarget ·doi:10.18632/oncotarget.23747

Iron is proposed to contribute to the transition from endometriosis to specific subtypes of ovarian cancers (OVCAs). Regulation of intracellular iron occurs via a ferritinophagic process involving NCOA4 (Nuclear Receptor Coactivator 4), rep…

article 2016
Cell death & disease ·doi:10.1038/cddis.2015.361

In endometriosis, the increased survival potential of shed endometrial cells (which normally undergo anoikis) is suggested to promote lesion development. One mechanism that may alter anoikis is autophagy. Using an autophagic flux inhibitor …