Endometrial Cancer

To the Editor: The article by Lu et al. (Nov. 19 issue) 1 provides comprehensive insight into endometrial cancer. We want to add two points. First, ovarian preservation should be advised for premenopausal women with early-stage endometrial cancer owing to its reported oncologic safety. 2 Furthermore...

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 2021-02, Vol.384 (6), p.586-586
Hauptverfasser: Kim, Se-Ik, Kim, Jae-Weon, Lu, Karen H, Broaddus, Russell R
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Zusammenfassung:To the Editor: The article by Lu et al. (Nov. 19 issue) 1 provides comprehensive insight into endometrial cancer. We want to add two points. First, ovarian preservation should be advised for premenopausal women with early-stage endometrial cancer owing to its reported oncologic safety. 2 Furthermore, it was reported that mortality was significantly higher among women who had undergone prophylactic bilateral oophorectomy before the age of 45 years than among those who had not. 3 Second, a preoperative prediction strategy is available to aid in the identification of women at low risk for lymph node metastasis and in the decision of whether to . . .
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMc2035378