Blaakaer J

No ORCID on file · 6 papers in corpus · active 2008-2025

Study types

  • review 2
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
other 2025
European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology ·doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2025.114624

PURPOSE: Data from the Danish National Patient Register (DNPR) is widely used in research. Although overall data quality is high, studies reveal large fluctuations in code accuracy, emphasizing the importance of evaluating code validity whe…

2019
Infectious agents and cancer ·doi:10.1186/s13027-019-0223-z

BackgroundThe underlying cause of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is unknown. It has been theorized that infectious agents could contribute to ovarian tumorigenesis.ObjectiveTo investigate the potential role of oncogenic viral infection in …

2017
Infectious agents and cancer ·doi:10.1186/s13027-017-0134-9

BackgroundThe etiological cause of ovarian cancer is poorly understood. It has been theorized that bacterial or viral infection as well as pelvic inflammatory disease could play a role in ovarian carcinogenesis.AimTo review the literature o…

review 2012
Gynecologic oncology ·doi:10.1016/j.ygyno.2011.10.001

OBJECTIVE: This article represents a review of histologic and genetic findings in endometriosis and describes the mechanisms whereby genetic and non-genetic factors potentially contribute to the neoplastic progression of endometriosis. MET…

review 2011
Gynecologic oncology ·doi:10.1016/j.ygyno.2011.06.017

ObjectiveThis article critically reviews the literature on the association between endometriosis and gynecological cancers and breast cancer, based on epidemiologic data.MethodsLiterature review of the English language literature based on s…

2008
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-08-0548

Over 22,000 cases of ovarian cancer were diagnosed in 2007 in the United States, but only a fraction of them can be attributed to mutations in highly penetrant genes such as BRCA1. To determine whether low-penetrance genetic variants contri…