Kathryn L Terry

Ovarian cancer incidence has declined in recent decades, due in part to oral contraceptive (OC) use and tubal ligation. However, intrauterine device (IUD) use has increasingly replaced OC use. As ovarian cancer is an inflammation-related di…

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition requiring surgical or imaging visualization for definitive diagnosis. How endometriotic lesion characteristics relate to circulating inflammatory markers remains unclear. We evaluated 11 inf…

Background: Endometriosis affects an estimated 10% of reproductive-aged women and is associated with increased ovarian cancer risk. While BRCA1/2 mutations are established risk factors for ovarian cancer, their association with endometriosi…

Background Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) is considered a human proxy for descending inhibitory pain pathways. However, there is wide variation in the CPM response described in the literature and ongoing debate about its utility. Methods…

Abstract Study question Is history of laparoscopically-confirmed endometriosis associated with worse cognitive function in middle-aged women? Summary answer History of laparoscopically-confirmed endometriosis is associated with lower cognit…

BACKGROUND: Ovarian high-grade serous carcinomas (HGSC) comprise four distinct molecular subtypes based on mRNA expression patterns, with differential survival. Understanding risk factor associations is important to elucidate the etiology o…

We evaluated inflammatory markers among 389 surgically confirmed endometriosis cases and 505 controls from the Women’s Health Study: From Adolescence to Adulthood (A2A) cohort. Participants reported dysmenorrhea, acyclic pelvic pain, dyspar…

STUDY QUESTION: What are the plasma metabolomics profiles associated with endometriosis in adolescents and young adults? SUMMARY ANSWER: Our findings show dysregulation of plasma metabolomic profiles in adolescents and young adults with end…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition characterised by pain and infertility. We conducted a prospective study to elucidate the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying endometriosis development. METHODS: We examined …

Supplementary Figure 1 shows a flowchart of exclusions to obtain the study population, with the number of cases and controls eligible for the analysis.

Supplementary Figure 2 shows two forest plots depicting the association between (A) dietary folate intake and (B) supplemental folate intake and ovarian cancer for women with endometriosis, stratified by potential effect modifiers

Supplementary Figure 3 shows scatter plots with the genetic association with folate on the x-axis and the genetic association with ovarian cancer on the y-axis, for (A) women with and (B) without endometriosis. The regression line for the i…

Supplementary Table 1 shows the range of folate intake included in each tertile, by OCAC study site.

Supplementary Table 2 shows the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) used as instruments for folate level in the Mendelian randomization analysis.

Supplementary Table 3 shows the associations between folate intake (dietary, supplemental, total) and ovarian cancer by endometriosis status, and by histological subtype (endometrioid/clear cell cancers and high grade serous cancers).

Supplementary Table 4 shows the association between glycemic index, glycemic load, grain intake and risk of ovarian cancer for women with and without endometriosis.

Supplementary Table 5 shows the results from the different Mendelian randomization methods investigating the association between genetically predicted folate and risk of ovarian cancer, by endometriosis status

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects ∼10 % of women. A significant fraction of patients experience limited or no efficacy with current therapies. Tissue adjacent to endometriosis lesions often exhibits …

AbstractBackground While folate intake has not been associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer overall, studies of other cancer types have suggested that high folate intake may promote carcinogenesis in pre-cancerous lesions. Women…

Introduction Over four million women in the US alone have been diagnosed with endometriosis. For those living with this disease, surgery and hormonal treatment reduce associated pelvic pain in some, while others continue to experience life …

OBJECTIVE: To prospectively assess the effect of endometriosis and uterine fibroids on the long term risk of premature mortality (younger than 70 years). DESIGN: Prospective cohort study SETTING: The Nurses' Health Study II, United States (…