Commentary: Could microchimerism play a role in ovarian carcinogenesis?

Ovarian cancer is the most fatal gynaecologic malignancy, taking the lives of close to 185  000 women in 2018 worldwide.1 Without an effective screening method and clinical symptoms only developing at late stages, a better understanding of why some women develop ovarian cancer and others do not is critical. Much of what we know about risk factors for ovarian cancer relate to hormones, yet well-established hormonal exposures account for less than half of all ovarian cancer cases.2 Factors unrelated to hormones likely play a role, and there is a need for new population-based research to uncover them.
Source: International Journal of Epidemiology - Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research