Michael J. Birrer

ORCID: 0000-0002-3861-4521 · 8 papers in corpus · active 2005-2024

Study types

  • article 4
  • review 3
  • letter 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 4
article 2024
·doi:10.1016/j.ygyno.2024.07.119
review 2013
Current opinion in oncology ·doi:10.1097/CCO.0b013e328363e0c7

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Recent discoveries have demonstrated that ovarian cancer is actually composed of multiple separate diseases. Clear cell cancer is an important example. This review will describe the unique biology of clear cell carcinoma,…

review 2012
Gynecologic oncology ·doi:10.1016/j.ygyno.2012.04.021
letter 2010
The New England journal of medicine ·doi:10.1056/nejme1009527

The association of endometriosis and ovarian cancer was first reported by Sampson in 1925.1 Transitional areas of endometriosis, ranging from benign to atypical, adjacent to ovarian cancer have been well documented.2 The risk of ovarian can…

article 2009
·doi:10.1593/neo.09112

In this study, we established an in vitro organoid model of normal human ovarian surface epithelial (HOSE) cells. The spheroids of these normal HOSE cells resembled epithelial inclusion cysts in human ovarian cortex, which are the cells of …

article 2008
·doi:10.1016/s0002-9378(08)01103-4
review 2007
Disease markers ·doi:10.1155/2007/474320

Ovarian cancer is complex disease composed of different histological grades and types. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms involved in the development of different phenotypes remain largely unknown. Epidemiological studies identifi…

article 2005
·doi:10.1200/jco.2005.23.16_suppl.5050

5050 Background: Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) can be subdivided into five major histologic types (Serous(SC), Mucinous(MC), Endometrioid(EC), Clear cell(CC), Undifferentiated (UC)). Among them, CC generally has a poor response to combina…