Ruud L.M. Bekkers
ORCID: 0000-0002-4577-8495
· 15 papers in corpus
2026
observational
2025
OBJECTIVE: - Atypical endometriosis (AE) is considered a potential precursor of endometriosis-associated ovarian carcinoma (EAOC). Despite this, AE identification currently lacks established clinical implications and is not routinely incorp…
2025
2024
2024
other
2022
INTRODUCTION: The local environment of the fallopian tube represents the optimal conditions for reproductive processes. To maintain tissue homeostasis, signal transduction pathways are thought to play a pivotal role. Enhancing our understan…
observational
2022
OBJECTIVE: To assess the incidence of ovarian cancer in women with histologically proven endometriosis after bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO). DESIGN: Retrospective nationwide cohort study. SETTING: Dutch pathology database. PATIENT…
observational
2021
Women with histologically proven endometriosis/adenomyosis have an increased risk of ovarian cancer. Small studies show conflicting results on the endometrial cancer risk in women with endometriosis/adenomyosis. Therefore, we assessed the i…
observational
2021
We aim to compare endometrial cancer survival in women with or without histological proven endometriosis or adenomyosis. We identified all women with endometrial cancer between 1990 and 2015 from the Netherlands Cancer Registry (NCR). Data …
review
2021
INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is a risk factor for low-grade serous, clear cell, and endometroid ovarian carcinoma. In both endometriosis and ovarian carcinoma, immunological factors are associated with clinical outcome. Chronic inflammation …
observational
2021
OBJECTIVE: Assessing the association between endometriosis and/or adenomyosis and ovarian cancer. METHODS: We identified all women with histological proven endometriosis (51,544 women) and/or adenomyosis (85,015 women) from the Dutch patho…
observational
2020
BACKGROUND: Several studies have suggested that endometriosis is associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer, especially for the clear-cell and endometrioid subtypes. However, previous studies lack sufficient power or diagnostic cer…
observational
2020
BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated the possible association between endosalpingiosis and ovarian cancer, therefore we assessed whether there is an association between histological confirmed endosalpingiosis and ovarian cancer. METHO…
observational
2020
BACKGROUND: Contradicting results regarding ovarian cancer prognosis in women with endometriosis have been reported in the literature. Owing to the small sample size of previous studies, larger studies are required to elucidate the role of …
2019