ConferenceCancer Research · March 4, 2024
AbstractBackground: While there is growing evidence that physical activity increases ovarian cancer risk, studies to date have been focused primarily on women of European ancestry. Little is known about whet ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · January 1, 2024
Background: As the number of young women with early-stage endometrial cancer is increasing, there is growing interest in use of progesterone-based therapy to allow fertility preservation. To date, there is a paucity of data on the safety and long-term outc ...
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ConferenceObstet Gynecol · June 1, 2023
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate associations between endometriosis and uterine leiomyomas with ovarian cancer risk by race and the effect of hysterectomy on these associations. METHODS: We used data from four case-control studies and two case-control studies nested ...
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ConferenceInt J Cancer · October 15, 2022
Black women diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer have poorer survival compared to white women. Factors that contribute to this disparity, aside from socioeconomic status and guideline-adherent treatment, have not yet been clearly identified. We examine ...
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ConferenceJ AAPOS · April 2022
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening rounds have been linked to pathogen transmission and serious adverse outcomes in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Using Monte Carlo simulations, we found that it is more likely less expensive to use reusable ...
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ConferenceCancer Research · August 15, 2020
AbstractPurpose. Although the incidence of epithelial ovarian cancer is highest among non-Hispanic white women, African-American women have the worst survival of all racial/ethnic groups. We hypothesize that ...
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ConferenceCancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention · June 1, 2020
AbstractBackground: Family history of ovarian and breast cancers is a well-established risk factor for ovarian cancer and recent findings suggest that the risk of ovarian cancer may be higher for African Ame ...
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ConferenceCancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention · June 1, 2020
AbstractObjective: Obesity disproportionately affects African American (AA) women, and there is some suggestion that its association with ovarian cancer risk may be stronger among AA compared to white women, ...
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ConferenceCancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention · June 1, 2020
AbstractBackground: The Ovarian Cancer in Women of African Ancestry consortium (OCWAA) was established to address racial disparities in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) risk and survival. Specifically, we aim ...
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ConferenceAnn Surg Oncol · October 2019
BACKGROUND: Cancer treatment costs are not routinely addressed in shared decisions for breast cancer surgery. Thus, we sought to characterize cost awareness and communication among surgeons treating breast cancer. METHODS: We conducted a self-administered, ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · October 20, 2018
207 Background: Despite the recognized side effect of financial toxicity after cancer, treatment decisions for breast cancer rarely include the costs of care. We sought to determine women’s experiences with breast cancer treatmen ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2017
6608 Background: UKCTOCS is the largest randomized controlled trial to evaluate screening’s impact on ovarian cancer mortality, assigning women to multimodal screening (MMS) with serum CA125 interpreted with a risk algorithm; ann ...
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ConferenceProceedings Winter Simulation Conference · February 16, 2016
Of the nearly 4 million births that occur each year in the U.S., almost 1 in 3 is a cesarean delivery. Due to the various increased risks associated with cesarean sections (C-sections) and the potential major complications in subsequent pregnancies, a re-e ...
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ConferenceProceedings Winter Simulation Conference · January 23, 2015
Cesarean delivery is the most common major abdominal surgery in many parts of the world. As of October 2012, the cesarean section rate in the United States was reported to be 32.8% in 2011, rising from 4.5% in 1970. Cesarean sections are associated with an ...
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