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Epidemiology of endometrial cancer
Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2001Endometrial cancer is the commonest gynaecological cancer mostly affecting women in the post-menopausal age group. Rates vary worldwide and are highest in white women in Western populations. Some risk factors are related to reproduction, such as early age at menarche, late age at menopause and nulliparity, while others are more directly oestrogen ...
D M, Purdie, A C, Green
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Prevention of Endometrial Cancer
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1977To the Editor.— It was a welcome relief to read Lipsett's article, "Estrogen Use and Cancer Risk" (237:1112), in which he supports the thesis that estrogens per se are not carcinogenic but are "preparative" for the development of cancer. There is little doubt that the cause of endometrial cancer is some carcinogenic agent (a virus or some other ...
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Obesity and Endometrial Cancer
2016Endometrial cancer is the sixth most common cancer in women worldwide and the most common gynecologic malignancy in the developed world. This chapter explores the current epidemiologic evidence on the association between obesity and endometrial cancer risk and mortality.
Eileen, Shaw +3 more
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Management of endometrial cancer
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1996Preoperative assessment requires only endometrial sampling for diagnosis. Curettage is needed when endometrial sampling is unsatisfactory. Transvaginal ultrasonography may be useful in screening high-risk patients, as well as in assessing myoinvasion or cervical extension. Postsurgical pathologic prognostic factor analysis is most accurate in assigning
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Epidemiology of endometrial cancer
1989The incidence of endometrial cancer rose sharply in the United States in the early 1970s, paralleling changes in the use of postmenopausal estrogens by American women. A sizable body of evidence supports the role of both excessive endogenous estrogen and exogenous estrogen in the etiology of endometrial cancer.
L F, Voigt, N S, Weiss
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Progestagens for endometrial cancer
1999Progestagen therapy following primary surgery for endometrial cancer has been advocated to reduce the risk of recurrence. The objective of this review was to assess the effect of adjuvant progestagen therapy in endometrial cancer.We searched the Cochrane Gynaecological Cancer Group trials register and MEDLINE up to May 1999.Randomised trials of ...
L, Martin-Hirsch P +3 more
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Management of endometrial cancer
European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO), 2006To review broadly the diagnosis and treatment of endometrial cancer, concentrating on the evidence base.The peer reviewed literature has been cited selectively to support the principal themes of the review.A rising incidence of endometrial cancer will continue to present challenges to improve survival particularly for high-risk and advanced disease ...
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