Björg Kristjansdottir
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· 4 papers in corpus
diagnostic-accuracy
2022
Diagnostic potential of nanoparticle aided assays for MUC16 and MUC1 glycovariants in ovarian cancer
Our study reports the discovery and evaluation of nanoparticle aided sensitive assays for glycovariants of MUC16 and MUC1 in a unique collection of paired ovarian cyst fluids and serum samples obtained at or prior to surgery for ovarian car…
nonrandomized-trial
2021
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…
diagnostic-accuracy
2020
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic cancer. Pre-diagnostic testing lacks sensitivity and specificity, and surgery is often the only way to secure the diagnosis. Exploring new biomarkers is of great importance, but the rationale of…
other
2012
BACKGROUND: We aimed to investigate the use of ovarian cyst fluid as a source for biomarker discovery and to find novel biomarkers for use in the diagnosis of epithelial ovarian tumors. RESULTS: Ovarian cyst fluids from 218 women were coll…