Simon Gayther

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus
other 2022
Journal of medical genetics ·doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2021-107904

BACKGROUND: Epithelial tubo-ovarian cancer (EOC) has high mortality partly due to late diagnosis. Prevention is available but may be associated with adverse effects. A multifactorial risk model based on known genetic and epidemiological ris…

observational 2022
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research ·doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-21-3817

PURPOSE: To identify molecular subclasses of clear cell ovarian carcinoma (CCOC) and assess their impact on clinical presentation and outcomes. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We profiled 421 primary CCOCs that passed quality control using a targeted…

observational 2020
British journal of cancer ·doi:10.1038/s41416-020-0900-0

BACKGROUND: PTEN loss is a putative driver in histotypes of ovarian cancer (high-grade serous (HGSOC), endometrioid (ENOC), clear cell (CCOC), mucinous (MOC), low-grade serous (LGSOC)). We aimed to characterise PTEN expression as a biomarke…

observational 2020
International journal of cancer ·doi:10.1002/ijc.32653

Women of African ancestry have lower incidence of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) yet worse survival compared to women of European ancestry. We conducted a genome-wide association study in African ancestry women with 755 EOC cases, includin…

review 2009
Molecular oncology ·doi:10.1016/j.molonc.2009.01.008

The value of identifying women with an inherited predisposition to epithelial ovarian cancer has become readily apparent with the identification of the BRCA1, and BRCA2 genes. Women who inherit a deleterious mutation in either of these gene…