Premium
Second primary cancers of endometrial carcinoma
Author(s) -
Vongtama Vitune,
Kurohara Samuel S.,
Badib Ahmed O.,
Webster John H.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197010)26:4<842::aid-cncr2820260417>3.0.co;2-o
Subject(s) - medicine , endometrial cancer , cancer , breast cancer , oncology , incidence (geometry) , gynecology , carcinoma , physics , optics
Of 984 patients with corpus cancer treated at Roswell Park Memorial Institute (between 1940 and 1960), 116 (11.8%) were found to have second primaries; of these, 47 had breast cancer, 15 skin cancer, 27 other pelvic cancers, 15 abdominal cancer, 3 head and neck cancer, and 3 lymphoma or leukemia the incidence of second cancers increased with time and age, especially in the sixth and seventh decades the risk of developing mammary cancer was found to be high within 5 years before the development of the uterine cancer. This time relationship is very interesting in that it supports the presumed association between corpus and breast cancer the results of the present study also suggest that there is a subgroup of women who have abnormal estrogen stimulation of both the corpus and the breasts, leading to the development of both corpus and breast cancer.