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Introduction Endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecological malignancy, and the sixth most common cancer in women worldwide, with 320,000 new cases and 76,000 deaths in 2012 ( 1 ). The incidence of endometrial cancer is increasing due to
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Introduction Endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecological malignancy in women from developed countries ( 1 ), and breast cancer is the most common cancer that develops in women worldwide and is responsible for the most female cancer
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Introduction Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most common gynaecological malignancy and its incidence is increasing. Worldwide, 288,000 women were diagnosed with EC in 2008 ( www.wcrf.org/int/cancer-facts-figures/data-specific-cancers/endometrial-cancer
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Introduction Endometrial cancer is the fifth most common cancer in females (4.8% of cancers in women), who have a accumulative risk of 1% of developing the disease by age 75 years ( 1 ). Additionally, endometrial adenocarcinomas is separated
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Introduction Endometrial cancer (EC) is one of the most common malignant genital tumors among females worldwide, with an estimated 61,380 new cases in America in 2017 ( 1 ). It is known that type1 EC is estrogen-dependent tumor. Sustained
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Introduction Cancer survivors are living longer after the initial diagnosis of cancer due to earlier diagnosis and improved cancer treatments. Epithelial ovarian cancer (OC), uterine endometrial cancer (EC), and cervical cancer (CC) are major
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identified germline pathogenic variants in the exonuclease domain of POLE and POLD1 which predispose, with a high penetrance, to multiple and/or large colorectal adenomas, early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) as well as endometrial cancer in female
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several malignancies such as breast and endometrial cancer ( 15 ). Previous studies have reported an association between the expression of steroid receptors and the progression of ovarian cancer ( 16 , 17 , 18 ); however, more evidence is required to
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factor in previous studies. Given though that obesity is a known risk factor for endometrial cancer ( 24 ), one of the most common gynaecological malignancies, and the deleterious effects it has been shown to have on the bone ( 25 , 26 ), further studies
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responsible for differential response to amifostine between normal and cancer cells in vivo ( 20 ). Luo and coworkers documented that sensitivity of endometrial cancer cells to the therapeutic effect of paclitaxel in combination with amifostine was dependent