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SUBMITTER: Olsen CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3857135 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Olsen Catherine M CM Nagle Christina M CM Whiteman David C DC Ness Roberta R Pearce Celeste Leigh CL Pike Malcolm C MC Rossing Mary Anne MA Terry Kathryn L KL Wu Anna H AH Risch Harvey A HA Yu Herbert H Doherty Jennifer A JA Chang-Claude Jenny J Hein Rebecca R Nickels Stefan S Wang-Gohrke Shan S Goodman Marc T MT Carney Michael E ME Matsuno Rayna K RK Lurie Galina G Moysich Kirsten K Kjaer Susanne K SK Jensen Allan A Hogdall Estrid E Goode Ellen L EL Fridley Brooke L BL Vierkant Robert A RA Larson Melissa C MC Schildkraut Joellen J Hoyo Cathrine C Moorman Patricia P Weber Rachel P RP Cramer Daniel W DW Vitonis Allison F AF Bandera Elisa V EV Olson Sara H SH Rodriguez-Rodriguez Lorna L King Melony M Brinton Louise A LA Yang Hannah H Garcia-Closas Montserrat M Lissowska Jolanta J Anton-Culver Hoda H Ziogas Argyrios A Gayther Simon A SA Ramus Susan J SJ Menon Usha U Gentry-Maharaj Aleksandra A Webb Penelope M PM
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Whilst previous studies have reported that higher BMI increases a woman's risk of developing ovarian cancer, associations for the different histological subtypes have not been well defined. As the prevalence of obesity has increased dramatically, and classification of ovarian histology has improved in the last decade, we sought to examine the association in a pooled analysis of recent studies participating in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. We evaluated the association between BMI (re ...[more]