OBJECTIVE In Mexico, cervical uterine cancer (CUC) is one of the leading causes of death among women, however a low degree of participation in the early detection programs has been found. This study is aimed at describing the social determinants of knowledge related to cervical uterine cancer and proper testing being conducted by establishing the social differences with regard thereto among a p...

Protease activated receptor-2 (PAR-2) is the second member of a novel family of G-protein coupled seven-transmembrane domain receptors. PAR-2 has been reported to be expressed in various tumors and play a vital role in the regulation of cancer cell growth. The purpose of this study was to clarify the roles of PAR-2 in the angiogenic pathway in uterine endometrial cancers. PAR-2 expression was a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate uterine and ovarian cancer mortality trends in East Asian countries. METHODS For three Asian countries and one region (Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong), we extracted number of deaths for each year from the World Health Organization (WHO) mortality database, focusing on women ≥20 years old. The WHO population data were used to estimate person-years at risk for wome...

Cancer of the uterine corpus is the most common invasive pelvic gynecological malignancy in the United States and other industrialized nations, and as a “female” malignancy is exceeded in incidence only by breast cancer. Compared to other pelvic cancers, a greater percentage of patients initially present with disease apparently confined to the uterine corpus (clinical Stage I under the older In...

Cumulative risk of cancer incidence of uterine cervix (ICD-10: C53) and uterine body (ICD-10: C54) to age 69 was calculated with data from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents Vol. VIII (1). Cumulative risk is defined as the probability that an individual will develop the disease in question during a certain age span, in the absence of other competing causes of death. The comparisons of the cumu...

OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of CT and positron emission tomography (PET) in the diagnosis of recurrent uterine cervical cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Imaging findings of CT and PET in 36 patients (mean age, 53 years) in whom recurrent uterine cervical cancer was suspected were analyzed retrospectively. Between October 1997 and May 1998, they had undergone surgery and/or radiation ther...

Until recently, the few available reports on the prevalence of cancer from the Arabian Gulf Council States (GCC) were suggestive that the incidence of uterine cancer in general was less common compared with those reported from western country. Cancer registries in the GCC States in the last five years indicate that uterine cancer has moved to the third on the list of leading causes of cancer in...

background & objectives: tumor diathesis (td) is defined as granular proteinaceous precipitates on slide surface of cytologic smears. it is found in the background of smears of invasive carcinoma but not in all cases. the aim of present study was to determine the prevalence of td in cervicovaginal smears from patients with uterine cervix carcinoma. methods: cytological smears and histologi...

Background: Endometrial ablation is a widely accepted conservative surgical approach for women with abnormal uterine bleeding. However, data on late-onset endometrial failure are scarce. cancer, particularly after adenomyosis, unknown.