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Living with acuteness in chronic illness: The temporal underpinnings of endometriosis

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how acuteness is experienced by people with endometriosis in Finland. Drawing on in‐depth interviews as well as anonymous written endometriosis stories, we trace instances when the sense of chronicity and cyclicality of endometriosis is disrupted by a possibility of risk to life. These instances include when endometriosis
Venla Oikkonen, Elina Helosvuori
wiley   +1 more source

Slippery Knowledge: Ignorance, Ecologies, and Environment in Endometriosis Framing

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite a growing body of literature linking environmental toxins and endometriosis, environmental issues make only occasional appearances in public, patient, and specialist conversations about endometriosis. These conversations may hover at the edges of public discourse, but do not gain traction.
Andrea Ford
wiley   +1 more source

Smooth Muscle Mechanosensitivity Generates and Maintains Pressure Gradients Across the Intestine

open access: yesNeurogastroenterology &Motility, EarlyView.
Mechanosensitivity of the smooth muscle induces a positive‐feedback loop that spontaneously generates pressure gradients across gut segments and stabilizes initially applied pressure gradients. It can act jointly or compete with the pressure gradient induced by directional peristaltic waves.
Richard J. Amedzrovi Agbesi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A theory for the tissue specificity of BRCA1/2 related and other hereditary cancers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Women who inherit a defective BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene have risks for breast and ovarian cancer that are so high and seem so selective that many mutation carriers choose to have prophylactic surgery. There has been much conjecture to explain such apparently
Bernard Friedenson
core   +1 more source

Borderline ovarian tumours

open access: yesThe Obstetrician &Gynaecologist, EarlyView.
Key content Borderline ovarian tumours (BOTs) are a diverse and heterogeneous set of diseases, which are encountered by all obstetricians and gynaecologists. They occur on average around 10 years earlier than malignant ovarian cancers and are associated with a significantly better prognosis. Preoperative diagnosis of BOTs is challenging as radiological
Holly Baker‐Rand   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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