Young patients with endometrial cancer: How many could be eligible for fertility-sparing treatment?
| Autor: | Isabelle Navarria, Massimo Usel, Elisabetta Rapiti, Christine Bouchardy, Marie-Françoise Pelte, P. Petignat, Isabelle Neyroud-Caspar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Oncology medicine.medical_specialty Population ddc:616.07 Endometrial Neoplasms/pathology/therapy Young Adult Quality of life Internal medicine Carcinoma medicine Chi-square test Humans Stage (cooking) education ddc:613 Neoplasm Staging education.field_of_study ddc:618 business.industry Endometrial cancer Age Factors Obstetrics and Gynecology Cancer Middle Aged medicine.disease Endometrial Neoplasms Cancer registry Fertility Female business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Gynecologic Oncology, Vol. 114, No 3 (2009) pp. 448-51 |
| ISSN: | 0090-8258 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVES: To assess the characteristics of young women with endometrial carcinoma, and evaluate those potentially eligible for conservative therapy. METHODS: We identified women diagnosed with endometrial cancer between 1970 and 2005 at the population-based Geneva Cancer Registry (n=1365). We classified patients into two age groups (< or =45 and >45 years old). Differences in demographic, tumor, diagnostic and treatment characteristics were tested with chi square. Kaplan-Meier analysis was used to calculate survival from endometrial cancer and the log-rank test to analyze differences in survival between the two groups. RESULTS: The young group comprised 44 (3.2%) women and the old group 1321 (96.8%) women. Synchronous ovarian malignancies were found in six patients (14%) in the young group, compared with 23 (2%) in the old group (P |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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