Metabolic Syndrome and Risk of Endometrial Cancer in the United States: A Study in the SEER–Medicare Linked Database | Zendy

Britton Trabert | Zendy; Nicolas Wentzensen | Zendy; Ashley S. Felix | Zendy; Hannah Yang | Zendy; Mark E. Sherman | Zendy; Louise A. Brinton | Zendy

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Metabolic Syndrome and Risk of Endometrial Cancer in the United States: A Study in the SEER–Medicare Linked Database

Author(s) -

Britton Trabert,

Nicolas Wentzensen,

Ashley S. Felix,

Hannah Yang,

Mark E. Sherman,

Louise A. Brinton

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

cancer epidemiology biomarkers and prevention

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.234

H-Index - 192

eISSN - 1538-7755

pISSN - 1055-9965

DOI - 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-14-0923

Subject(s) - endometrial cancer , medicine , cancer , national database , gynecology , database , oncology , gerontology , computer science

Metabolic syndrome and its component feature, central obesity, are associated with endometrial cancer risk. It remains unclear whether associations with the other metabolic factors that comprise metabolic syndrome are independent of the obesity-endometrial cancer association. Furthermore, the link with specific endometrial cancer subtypes remains ill-defined, despite evidence of etiologic heterogeneity among these tumors.

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