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Endometrial Cancer-Related Deaths Increasing.(Brief Article)
2001 OCT 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
Gynecologic oncologists are urging women to learn more about their gynecologic health during Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month.
The rate of death from endometrial cancer has shot up by 128% since 1987, according to experts from the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO) who examined American Cancer Society statistics. In addition, they found that endometrial cancer accounts for 25% of all gynecologic cancer-related deaths. The estimated number of women who die from endometrial cancer each year exceeds 6,500 - more than double the number 14 years ago.
What makes this increased death rate even more alarming is that the number of new endometrial cancer cases per year has increased by less than 10%. At the same time, mortality rates for all other forms of gynecologic cancers have decreased or remained stable.
This increase in endometrial cancer mortality has spurred a call to action. The gynecologic oncology community is currently conducting research to understand the root cause of these perplexing statistics.
"It's disturbing that the annual mortality-to-incidence ratio for endometrial cancer has dramatically increased over the past decade, especially since the disease has clear symptoms and is relatively easy to detect with standard testing," said Gynecologic Cancer Foundation spokesperson Karl C. Podratz, MD, PhD, professor, department of obstetrics and gynecology, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Rochester, Minnesota. "That's why it's so vital for women to seek the specialized care of a gynecologic oncologist."
Endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of the female reproductive system, accounting for nearly half of all gynecologic malignancies. It is also the fourth most common female cancer, exceeded only by breast, colorectal, and lung cancers. Factors associated with increased risk of endometrial cancer include obesity, hypertension, diabetes, inappropriate estrogen use, tamoxifen use, and late menopause. The most common warning signs are vaginal bleeding after menopause or irregular vaginal bleeding in premenopausal women.
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