Peeter Karihtala

ORCID: 0000-0003-3490-3702 · 3 papers in corpus
review 2020
Wise Management of Ovarian Cancer: On the Cutting Edge
Journal of personalized medicine ·doi:10.3390/jpm10020041

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the fifth leading cause of cancer mortality among women. Two-thirds of patients present at advanced stage at diagnosis, and the estimated 5 year survival rate is 20-40%. This heterogeneous group of maligna…

observational 2015
Preoperative serum 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine is associated with chemoresistance and is a powerful prognostic factor in endometrioid-type epithelial ovarian cancer
BMC cancer ·doi:10.1186/s12885-015-1504-6

BACKGROUND: Oxidative stress is a widely seen phenomenon in several carcinomas. Increasing evidence also suggests that it has a significant role in the development of epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC). 8-Hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) is o…

other 2012
Down-regulation of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine and peroxiredoxin II in the pathogenesis of endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer
Anticancer research

AIM: To evaluate the roles of oxidative stress marker 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) and peroxiredoxin (PRX) antioxidants in the development of endometriosis and endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer (EAC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Tissu…