Missing link: Inflammation and ovarian cancer

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 833-834

  Pejovic, Tanja ^a   Nezhat, Farr ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; COMORBIDITY; DNA DAMAGE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NOTE; OVARY CANCER; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE;

EID: 80052343691     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: 14745488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(11)70203-0     Document Type: Note

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