%0 Journal Article
%A Fortner, Renée
%A Terry, Kathryn L
%A Bender, Noemi
%A Brenner, Nicole
%A Hufnagel, Katrin
%A Butt, Julia
%A Waterboer, Tim
%A Tworoger, Shelley S
%T Sexually transmitted infections and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: results from the Nurses' Health Studies.
%J British journal of cancer
%V 120
%N 8
%@ 1532-1827
%C Edinburgh
%I Nature Publ. Group
%M DKFZ-2019-00947
%P 855-860
%D 2019
%Z ;120(8):855-860, mm
%X Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are associated with pelvic inflammatory disease and tubal pathologies. Given the tubal origin of a proportion of ovarian cancers, STIs may be relevant in their aetiology.Antibodies indicating past infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma genitalium, herpes simplex virus type 2, and against human papillomavirus oncogenes (L1 and E6+E7 oncoproteins of types 16, 18, 45) were measured in prediagnosis plasma samples in a nested case-control study in the Nurses' Health Studies (n = 337 cases 1:1 matched to controls). Logistic regression was used to estimate multivariable-adjusted relative risks (RRs) and 95
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:30894687
%R 10.1038/s41416-019-0422-9
%U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/143359