Getting to know the most important environmental risk factors for endometrial cancer development lets us provide well programmed primary preventive activity, thus avoiding or greatly reducing environmental risk factors for diseases. This activity may lead to a reduced number of new cases of endometrial cancer. We can help women live longer and better by well programmed preventive activity even ...

Synchronous endometrial and ovarian (SEO) carcinomas involve endometrioid neoplasms in both the ovary and uterus at the time of diagnosis. Patients were traditionally classified as having independent primary SEO lesions or as having metastatic endometrioid carcinoma. Recent studies have supported that SEO tumors result from the dissemination of cells from one organ site to another. However, whe...

Center for Women’s Health (G.E.H.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048; Department of Medical and Scientific Services, Quintiles Inc. (C.L.H.), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-3979; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (C.L.H.), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710; and Department of Pathology (J.M.C.), Wake Forest University Schoo...

introduction: to evaluate the efficacy and safety of carboplatin plus paclitaxel in patients with advanced locoregional recurrence and metastatic endometrial cancer. patient and method: 32 eligible patients (median age 62, range 41-72) with measurable endometrial cancer were treated with carboplatin (auc= 6) and paclitaxel (175 mg/m 3 ) every 4 weeks for 6 cycles, or, until disease progression ...

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease which is most commonly manifested in the pulmonary system. However, extrapulmonary manifestations have also been frequently reported. Isolated occurrence of sarcoidosis in the genital system is rare and poses a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. Uterine sarcoidosis can present with cervical erosions, endometrial polypoid lesions, and recurrent serometra. In...

Endometrial stromal sarcomas (ESS) are rare neoplasms with the capacity both to invade the myometrium locally and to give rise to extrauterine metastases. Cytogenetic abnormalities have been reported in 22 cases of ESS, mostly involving rearrangements of chromosomes 6, 7, and 17. The most characteristic translocation of this tumor type, t(7;17)(p15 approximately p21;q12 approximately q21), was ...

INTRODUCTION Uterine tumors resembling ovarian sex cord tumors (UTROSCT) are uterine neoplasms of unknown histiogenesis which show near complete differentiation towards ovarian sex cord elements and are postulated to arise from pluripotential uterine mesenchymal cells or endometrial stromal cells with secondary sex cord differentiation. CASE PRESENTATION A 48 year old post-menopausal women pr...

Studies have shown that expectations about exercise outcomes are associated with exercise behavior. Outcome expectations can be assessed by self-report questionnaires, but a new method-the expectancy accessibility task-may convey unique information about outcome expectations that is less subject to respondent biases. This method involves measuring the reaction time to endorse or reject an outco...

Peritoneal keratin granulomatosis is a rare condition included under granulomatous lesions of the peritoneum. It can be secondary to neoplasms of the female genital tract and can mimic carcinomatosis intraoperatively. A case of a 40-year-old woman with a history of polycystic ovaries and a chief complaint of vaginal bleeding is presented. She was diagnosed with endometrioid adenocarcinoma with ...