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Table 1 Endometriosis and ovarian cancer risk in clinical and epidemiological studies (RR, relative risk, 95% CI confidence interval; numbers in square brackets are reference citations)

From: Association between ovarian endometriosis and malignancy in the peri-menopausal period: report of two cases and review of the literature

Case control/cohort study

Size cohort

Ovarian cancer

RR

95% CI

Briton et al. [23]

20,686

1.92

1.3–2.8

Ness et al. [22]

3,678 cases/5,268 controls

1.73

1.10–2.71

Melin et al. [25]

64,492

1.43

1.19–1.71

Kobayashi et al. [24]

6,398

8.95

4.12–15.3