Menstrual pain and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: Results from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium.

ABSTRACT: Menstrual pain, a common gynecological condition, has been associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer in some, but not all studies. Furthermore, potential variations in the association between menstrual pain and ovarian cancer by histologic subtype have not been adequately evaluated due to lack of power. We assessed menstrual pain using either direct questions about having experienced menstrual pain, or indirect questions about menstrual pain as indication for use of hormones or medications. We used multivariate logistic regression to calculate the odds ratio (OR) for the association between severe menstrual pain and ovarian cancer, adjusting for potential confounders and multinomial logistic regression to calculate ORs for specific histologic subtypes. We observed no association bet

SUBMITTER: Babic A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7580880 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature