Rethinking ovarian cancer II: reducing mortality from high-grade serous ovarian cancer

DD Bowtell, S Böhm, AA Ahmed, PJ Aspuria… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) accounts for 70–80% of ovarian cancer deaths,
and overall survival has not changed significantly for several decades. In this Opinion article …

Ovarian cancer prevention and screening

U Menon, C Karpinskyj… - Obstetrics & …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Financial Disclosure Prof. Menon has stock ownership and has received research funding
from Abcodia Ltd, a UCL spinout company with an interest in biomarkers and commercial …

Role of genetic testing for inherited prostate cancer risk: Philadelphia Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference 2017

VN Giri, KE Knudsen, WK Kelly, W Abida… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Guidelines are limited for genetic testing for prostate cancer (PCA). The goal of this
conference was to develop an expert consensus-driven working framework for …

Cost-effectiveness of population-based BRCA1, BRCA2, RAD51C, RAD51D, BRIP1, PALB2 mutation testing in unselected general population women

R Manchanda, S Patel, VS Gordeev… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background The cost-effectiveness of population-based panel testing for high-and moderate-
penetrance ovarian cancer (OC)/breast cancer (BC) gene mutations is unknown. We …

Risk‐reducing bilateral salpingo‐oophorectomy in women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

GU Eleje, AC Eke, IU Ezebialu… - Cochrane Database …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background The presence of deleterious mutations in breast cancer 1 gene (BRCA1) or
breast cancer 2 gene (BRCA2) significantly increases the risk of developing some cancers …

Cost-effectiveness of precision medicine: a scoping review

M Kasztura, A Richard, NE Bempong, D Loncar… - International journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Objectives Precision medicine (PM) aims to improve patient outcomes by stratifying or
individualizing diagnosis and treatment decisions. Previous reviews found inconclusive …

Hereditary ovarian cancer: towards a cost-effective prevention strategy

A Ghose, A Bolina, I Mahajan, SA Raza… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ovarian cancer (OC) is the most lethal gynaecological malignancy. The search for a widely
affordable and accessible screening strategy to reduce mortality from OC is still ongoing …

Cancer genetics, precision prevention and a call to action

C Turnbull, A Sud, RS Houlston - Nature genetics, 2018 - nature.com
More than 15 years have passed since the identification, through linkage, of 'first-
wave'susceptibility genes for common cancers (BRCA1, BRCA2, MLH1 and MSH2). These …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-gene panel testing of 23,179 individuals for hereditary cancer risk identifies pathogenic variant carriers missed by current genetic testing guidelines

CL Neben, AD Zimmer, W Stedden… - The Journal of Molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent advancements in next-generation sequencing have greatly expanded the use of
multi-gene panel testing for hereditary cancer risk. Although genetic testing helps guide …

Economic Evaluation of Population-Based BRCA1/BRCA2 Mutation Testing across Multiple Countries and Health Systems

R Manchanda, L Sun, S Patel, O Evans, J Wilschut… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Clinical criteria/Family history-based BRCA testing misses a large proportion of BRCA
carriers who can benefit from screening/prevention. We estimate the cost-effectiveness of …