Endometrial Cancer: Disease-based Treatment
KC Podratz, SC Dowdy, A Mariani · Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie · 2005 · Heft 12
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Zusammenfassung
It is estimated that during calendar year 2005, 40,880 new cases of endometrial cancer will be diagnosed and 7,310 women will die of this disease in the United States. The majority of treatment failures and the accompanying compromised longevity are the result of the failure to recognize sites of occult extrauterine dissemination at the time of primary treatment. Furthermore, adjuvant therapy has generally been dictated by traditional preferences, namely modality-based therapy, rather than disease-based algorithms as determined by patterns of recurrence. The natural history of epithelial corpus cancer includes f…