About me as a person not only the disease - piloting Guided Self-Determination in an outpatient endometriosis setting.

Introduction: Endometriosis is a chronic disease affecting 5-10% of women in the reproductive age. Despite surgical and medical treatment, many women struggle with pain, infertility, sexual dysfunction, depression, distress and reduced workability, affecting their overall quality of life. The usual follow-up procedures may not support the women's self-management of this condition.

Comparison of proteomic biomarker panels in urine and serum for ovarian cancer diagnosis.

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to confirm previously found candidate epithelial ovarian cancer biomarkers in urine and to compare a paired serum biomarker panel and a urine biomarker panel from the same study cohort with regard to the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) area under the ROC curve (AUC) values.

Experimental Design: Four significant urine biomarkers were confirmed among 130 pelvic mass patients in the present study. The four biomarkers form a potential urine biomarker panel.