Valerie Beral
ORCID: 0000-0002-3581-9361
· 6 papers in corpus
observational
2022
BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer mortality in UK women. Ovarian cancer survival varies by disease stage at diagnosis, but evidence is mixed on the effect of tumour histological type (histotype) and other facto…
observational
2018
Ovarian cancer risk is known to be reduced amongst women who have had children, but reported associations with breastfeeding are varied. Few studies have had sufficient power to explore reliably these associations by tumour histotype. In a …
observational
2016
BACKGROUND: Tubal ligation is known to be associated with a reduction in ovarian cancer risk. Associations with breast, endometrial and cervical cancers have been suggested. We investigated associations for 26 site-specific cancers in a lar…
observational
2016
Tubal ligation and ovarian cancer risk in a large cohort: Substantial variation by histological type
Histopathological and molecular studies suggest that different histological subtypes (histotypes) of ovarian cancer have different aetiologies. Few studies have been large enough to explore reliably the effect of tubal ligation (sterilizati…
observational
1994
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine, in women with primary infertility, whether specific characteristics or behavioural factors are associated with the various pathological conditions identified as contributing to the infertility. DESIGN: Case-c…
observational
1984
Ovarian cysts are the fourth most common gynaecological cause for admission to hospital in England and Wales, with 14000 discharges annually. Little is known about their aetiology or distribution in the population. This report summarises th…