Progestin therapy for patients with endometrial cancer

Tsangouri P. S, Lazarou E, Pappa K

Endometrial cancer is the fifth most common cancer in women worldwide, counting almost 320.000 cases in 2012, and is the sixth leading cause of female death related to cancer. In the United States of America there were 60.050 new endometrial cancer cases in 2016 while in Europe 88.068 and in the United Kingdom about 7.400 cases annually. Atypical endometrial hyperplasia or endometrial intraepithelian neoplasia …

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Mortality rates of breast cancer patients: Results of a study of 4,108 women treated in two Greek hospitals from 1981 to 2008

Perperoglou A, Louvrou N, Michaloutsou K, Keramopoullos D, Keramopoullos A

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and the second cause of death in the female population. This study presents mortality rates and rates of metastasis in breast cancer patients. A total of 4,108 breast cancer cases were examined. The overall survival rate at 5 years was 88%, and the corresponding 10 year survival rate was 79.8%. In the subgroup of patients with T1 tumors …

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