Endometrial cancer
Cet article passe en revue les facteurs de risques et les traitements du cancer de l'endomètre
The International Agency for Research on Cancer recently estimated that endometrial carcinoma is the commonest gynaecological cancer in the developed world, 1 with a rising incidence in postmenopausal women. In 2007, 7536 new endometrial cancers were diagnosed in the UK, making it the fourth most common cancer in women after breast, lung, and colorectal cancers. 2 Cancer of the endometrium is the commonest cancer of the uterine corpus (about 92%, the remainder being uterine carcinosarcomas and sarcomas), according to the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results programme of the US National Cancer Institute, which has collected data on cancer from various locations and sources since 1973. 3 Cure is possible and the overall five year survival rate for all stages is currently around 80%. Most women present early in the course of the disease when cure is more likely, so primary care practitioners need to be vigilant for potential indicators. We discuss the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of endometrial cancer on the basis of a review of observational