background: this study was designed to determine the frequency of microsatellite instability (msi) in young iranian pa­tients with endometrial carcinoma and to evaluate its association with histopathologic and clinical features of disease. methods : microsatellite status was analyzed in 23 patients with endometrioid type endometrial cancer who were less than 55 years. clinicopathologic characte...

Background: Infertility is an important and common problem in couples that needs to assisted reproductive technology (ART) or the other drug therapies. Infertility has been known as a risk factor for ovarian cancer, breast cancer and endometrial cancer but there is a question about the relationship of these cancers to infertility itself or drugs and methods of infertility treatment. Materials a...

Background Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in the United States, with over 40,000 cases diagnosed each year, typically in the postmenopausal women. 25% of cases affect premenopausal women. 14% of endometrial cancers are diagnosed in women younger than 45 years old. 5% of these tumors are diagnosed in women younger than 40 years old. In this talk the learning objecti...

introduction: endometrial cancer is the most common pelvic malignancy in women. approximately 7,000 women die from this disease every year. although most patients can be treated with appropriate therapies, there is insufficient data regarding the choice of the best adjuvant therapy after a surgical procedure in advanced endometrial cancer cases. it seems that radiotherapy or chemotherapy alone ...

the present study evaluate the histopathologic findings and clinical indications in hysterectomized patients based on sonographic assessments. this study population consisted of all patients who were referred to the pathology ward of imam reza educational and treatment center (kermanshah, iran) during march 2006 to may 2012. the samples were stained with hematoxylin-eosin after fixation in form...

Data are limited regarding the occurrence of endometrial cancer after endometrial ablation (EA). A systematic review of the English-language medical literature was performed of cases of endometrial cancer after EA. This review included the present case report involving a 47-year-old woman with a diagnosis of stage IA, grade 1 endometrial adenocarcinoma 5 years after radiofrequency EA. The syste...

Endometrial carcinoma is the most prevalent gynecologic cancer in industrialized countries and second common developing after cervical cancer; it fourth commonly diagnosed cancer. The purpose of this study to evaluate immunohistochemistry expression oestrogen receptor (ER) Her-2/neu Sudanese patients with endometrial (EMC). A retrospective descriptive archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embed...