August 1, 2024 by The North American Menopause Society Credit: CC0 Public DomainDespite the fact that endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of the female reproductive organs, a significant percentage of women do not know that postmenopausal bleeding is a key warning sign of the disease. Worse, even fewer women report having received any...
Maurie Markman, MDDISCL OSURES October 04, 2023 I’m Dr Maurie Markman from City of Hope, and I would like to discuss a fascinating, long-term, follow-up study of a trial that was completed many years ago but addresses a very important, clinically related matter. The trial I am referring to, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, is...
by Medical Research Council Credit: iScience (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106590New research from QIMR Berghofer has found that the hormone testosterone may play an important role in the development of endometrial cancer. The discovery raises exciting new possibilities for screening, preventing and fighting this increasingly prevalent disease. Endometrial cancer is the fourth most common cancer in Australian...
UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA Endometrial cancer is the most common type of gynecological cancer and is the fourth most common type of tumor in women in developed countries. Although it has a good prognosis if detected early, advanced and aggressive cases have a high mortality rate and are often resistant to standard chemotherapy treatments. Now,...
by Cleveland Clinic Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The HSD3B1 gene could hold clues for predicting and treating endometrial cancer, according to a novel finding from the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute. Researchers found a certain HSD3B1 genotype was more common in women with type 2 endometrial cancer, according to the results published in JNCI Cancer Spectrum. Those...
Research unveils possible mechanisms behind the link between womb cancer risk and BMI. FreshSplash/Getty Images The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) recognizes 13 cancers as linked to obesity, and therefore considers some cases as potentially preventable. One of these types of cancers is endometrial cancer, cases of which have increased by 59% since the early 90s in...
by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A combination therapy that targets cancer cells from within and without caused tumors to shrink or stabilize in 75% of patients with recurrent or persistent estrogen receptor- (ER-) positive endometrial cancer, results from a recent clinical trial show. Trial leaders from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will present the...
by Wiley Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Higher coffee consumption is linked with a lower risk of endometrial cancer, a type of cancer that begins in the lining of uterus, according to an analysis of relevant studies published to date. Also, caffeinated coffee may provide better protection than decaffeinated coffee. The analysis, which appears in the Journal...
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER COLUMBUS, Ohio – A cancer immunotherapy drug currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat several forms of cancer is also effective for treating aggressive forms of endometrial (uterine) cancer, according to results from an international phase II clinical trial led by researchers at The Ohio...
THE NORTH AMERICAN MENOPAUSE SOCIETY (NAMS) CLEVELAND, Ohio (June 30, 2021)–The link between obesity and the risk of endometrial cancer has been well documented. A new study, however, shows that an even lower body mass index (BMI) than previously thought can signal an increased risk in Asian women with postmenopausal bleeding. Study results are published...
