Demographics of uterine serous cancer (USC) patients: A single institutional experience.

2017 
e15581 Background: The common uterine cancer (UC) occurs in obese, diabetic (DM), hypertensive (HTN), postmenopausal women and are estrogen dependent. Small institutional series suggest USC occurs in older, thin women and is not associated with estrogen dependency. The objective of this study is to report demographic features of USC patients (pts) in a large single-institution experience and compared them with SEER data for UC (National Cancer Institute, SEER 2004-2008, uterine cancer. http://seer.cancer.gov/statistics/). Methods: Institutional records were reviewed from 1987 to 2009. Pts age, menopause status, race, disease stage, histology, past medical history (PMH) and additional demographics were collected. Results: 334 USC (pts) were identified. Their average age at diagnosis was 69.1 years (range 37-92). 282 (88.1%) were Caucasian and 32 (10%) were African Americans. The FIGO stage was IA 121 (36.2%), IB 36 (10.8%), II 27 (8.1%), IIIA 39 (11.7%), IIIB 2 (0.6%), IIIC1 32 (9.6%), IIIC2 9 (2.7%), IVA ...
    • Correction
    • Source
    • Cite
    • Save
    • Machine Reading By IdeaReader
    0
    References
    0
    Citations
    NaN
    KQI
    []