Endometrial cancer
After cancer of the breast, lungs and colon, endometrial cancer (cancer of the body of the uterus) ranks fourth in cancer of the female population. In 2000, 189,000 people died of endometrial cancer in the world and 44,700 women died.
The incidence rate is three times higher in developed countries. Numerous risk factors, directly or indirectly, endogenously or exogenously, lead to...