Shelley Tworoger

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus

observational 2015

Ovarian cancer survival by tumor dominance, a surrogate for site of origin

Cancer causes & control : CCC ·doi:10.1007/s10552-015-0547-y

OBJECTIVES: Recent studies suggest that a proportion of ovarian tumors may actually originate in the distal fallopian tube. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between dominance (a surrogate for site of origin) and s…

observational 2008

A candidate precursor to pelvic serous cancer (p53 signature) and its prevalence in ovaries and fallopian tubes from women with BRCA mutations

Gynecologic Oncology ·doi:10.1016/j.ygyno.2008.01.012

BACKGROUND: Early serous carcinomas predominate in the fimbria of women with BRCA mutations (BRCA+). An entity in non-neoplastic mucosa sharing several properties of early serous carcinomas--the "p53 signature"--has been described in the di…