Publications by authors named "Mette Tetsche"
Background: The incidence of ovarian cancer increases sharply with age, and many elderly patients have coexisting diseases. If patients with comorbidities are diagnosed with advanced stages, this would explain the poor survival observed among ovarian cancer patients with severe comorbidity. Our aims were to examine the prevalence of comorbidity according to stage of cancer at diagnosis, to estimate the impact of comorbidity on survival, and to examine whether the impact of comorbidity on survival varies by stage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe set out to study the relationship between circulating levels of IGF-I and its major binding protein (IGFBP-3) in relation to ovarian cancer risk. We conducted a case-control study nested within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Levels of IGF-I and IGFBP-3 were measured in prediagnostic serum samples of 214 women who subsequently developed ovarian cancer, and 388 matched control subjects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To examine whether acute pancreatitis is associated with the use of postmenopausal hormonal replacement therapy in Danish women over 45 yr of age.
Methods: We based this population-based case-control study on data from three Danish counties for the years 1991-2003. We identified all women (>45 yr of age) with a first hospital discharge diagnosis of acute pancreatitis in the county hospital discharge registries (N = 1,054).
Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is associated with ovarian cancer and may impact the prognosis of ovarian cancer. Our aims were to examine the extent of disease at the time of the diagnosis of ovarian cancer and to estimate the impact of VTE on survival of ovarian cancer.
Methods: We identified 12,835 ovarian cancer patients diagnosed from 1980 to 2003 in the Danish Cancer Registry and obtained information on previous primary VTE diagnosis from the Danish National Hospital Discharge Registry.
Objective: The association between consumption of fruit and vegetables and risk of ovarian cancer is still unclear from a prospective point of view.
Methods: Female participants (n = 325,640) of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study, free of any cancer at baseline, were followed on average for 6.3 years to develop ovarian cancer.
Objective: The study was performed to evaluate the results of treatment of ovarian carcinoma after the introduction of centralised primary surgery in the County of North Jutland, Denmark.
Method: Prospective study of consecutive cases of ovarian cancer undergoing primary surgical treatment at the Gynecologic Oncologic Center after the introduction of centralised primary surgery. Results of treatment recorded up to the date of last examination or death.
Background: The aim of this questionnaire study dealing with women with stress urinary incontinence was to find out what influence incontinence and operation for incontinence in the form of tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) or intravaginal slingplasty operation (IVS) had on the patient's sexuality and if there were any adverse effects on sexuality after the operation.
Methods: Eighty-four patients were operated on from April 1998 to September 2002. A questionnaire was sent to all patients with questions concerning their sexuality before and after the operation.