African American Race and Low Income Neighborhoods
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Endometrial cancers are the most common gynecologic cancers of United States (U.S.), with over 35000 cases diagnosed each year (Duong et al., 2011). The incidence is on the rise because of obesity epidemic. Current management includes surgery alone for early endometrial cancers and additional post-operative radiotherapy (Patel et al., 2012) (Koskas et al., 2011) and chemotherapy (Wright et al., 2012) for more advanced cases. Endometrial cancers have excellent outcomes (Wright et al., 2012) with
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