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Endometrial Cancer
Studies from D. Espindola and colleagues provide new data on endometrial cancer
March 13th, 2008
"There are no screening tests for endometrial carcinoma, and patients typically present with abnormal uterine bleeding. This article discusses the pathophysiology and clinical work-up of abnormal uterine bleeding, and risk factors for endometrial carcinoma," scientists writing in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America report. "Atypical complex hyperplasia and the more recently defined endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia are well recognized as precancers. Evolving knowledge of their genetic alterations provides the opportunity to develop molecular markers, so that endometrial diseases may be diagnosed at the precancerous or early invasive...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-03-13)
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