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Epidemiology and Etiology
Endometrial carcinoma is also called corpus cancer. During the past 20 years there has been a drastic increase in the worldwide incidence of endometrial carcinoma, such that in many areas endometrial carcinoma...
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Diagnosis of Endometrial Carcinoma
Endometrial carcinoma is primarily a disease of postmenopausal women. The peak incidence between 55 and 59 years of age is later than for cervical cancer. Only 2%–5% of all cases are diagnosed before the age o...
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Prognosis of Endometrial Carcinoma
In the FIGO Annual Report (1985), 5-year survival was 67.7% in 13 581 cases of endo-metrial carcinoma (Table 5.1). The reported figures of survival have been consistent, ranging from 66% to 77% (Frick et al. 1...
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Medicopsychologic Problems in Patients with Gynecologic Cancers
The life process of all persons involves a continuous interchange between the internal and external environments. It is characterized by input-interaction-output phenomena in consistent, often cyclic or repeti...
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Pathology
Adenocarcinoma is by far the commonest primary malignancy encountered in the endometrium, arising in the glandular epithelium of the endometrium. Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the endometrium is particula...
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Treatment of Endometrial Carcinoma
Nearly one century has passed since Thomas Cullen, in his book Cancer of the Uterus published in 1900, described the treatment of endometrial carcinoma with abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral sal**o-oophorect...
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Laboratory Research
Recent advances in laboratory research and their clinical application have enabled the clinician to reconcile clinical observations with related scientific observations of which the identification and detectio...