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Research findings from University of Bergen update understanding of sarcoma

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 6th, 2009

According to a study from Bergen, Norway, "Nulliparity has been found to negatively affect prognosis among endometrial cancer patients. Few previous studies have examined the prognostic impact of parity in patients with uterine sarcomas."

"In the present nationwide, register-based Study in Norway, we explore whether parity influences survival among 493 women diagnosed with malignant uterine sarcomas. Hazard ratios for total mortality were calculated in Cox proportional hazard regression analyses. The 5-year Kaplan-Meier survival rates for the 126 endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) patients, 249 leiomyosarcoma (LS) patients, and If 8 carcinosarcoma (CS) patients were 74%,...

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