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- Title
Endometrial cancer - case study.
- Authors
Dumitrașcu, Mihai Cristian; Nenciu, Cătălin George; Munteanu, Octavian; Cîrstoiu, Monica Mihaela
- Abstract
Endometrial cancer holds the fourth position from the frequency perspective reported to the total types of cancer in women, estimating that it caused over 8,000 deaths in 2011. Its incidence is increasing with a 3% risk during the entire lifetime. Unfortunately, the survival rate at 5 years is lower than 30 years ago (88% in 1975, 84% in 2006 and 82% in 2011). Though the majority of endometrial cancer cases are diagnosed at an early stage, the differences between the histopathologic features and the particular aspects of the female patient have an impact upon the prognosis and may change the therapeutic approach. In this paper we want to present the case of the patient C.M., aged 66, who presents urgently due to abdominal pain and minimum metrorrhagia. The anamnesis shows that the patient is known with endometrial adenocarcinoma diagnosed 9 years ago and subjected to radiation therapy in a dose of 50 Gy. From the end of the treatments up to this moment, the patient has not come to the physician's practice. Among the comorbidities, we are mentioning obesity, diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure. This time, the surgical treatment of this pathology was chosen with the histopathological result at 9 years from the first diagnosis of moderately endometroid endometrial adenocarcinoma differentiated with squamoid areas and micro-foci of endometrial carcinoma with clear cells, invasive in the external half of the myometrial wall, with metastases in the lymph nodes (staging pTNM III C2 T1 N2). In this case, we can discus about the existence of the typical comorbidity scheme which determined a status of hyperesterogenism associated with a metabolic syndrome, having a significant survival period after the first diagnosis, although only radiation therapy was performed.
- Subjects
ABDOMINAL pain; METRORRHAGIA
- Publication
Oncolog-Hematolog, 2017, Issue 39, p46
- ISSN
2066-8716
- Publication type
Case Study