Björg Kristjánsdóttir

ORCID: 0000-0002-0245-5282 · 2 papers in corpus

nonrandomized-trial 2021

Consideration should be given to smoking, endometriosis, renal function (eGFR) and age when interpreting CA125 and HE4 in ovarian tumor diagnostics

Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine ·doi:10.1515/cclm-2021-0510

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact of different biologic, histopathologic and lifestyle factors on serum levels of human epididymis protein 4 (HE4) and Cancer antigen 125 (CA125) in the diagnostic work up of women with an ovarian cyst or pe…

other 2014

Early inflammatory response in epithelial ovarian tumor cyst fluids

Cancer medicine ·doi:10.1002/cam4.282

Mortality rates for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) are high, mainly due to late-stage diagnosis. The identification of biomarkers for this cancer could contribute to earlier diagnosis and increased survival rates. Given that chronic inflam…