Vol 88, No 4 (2017)
Review paper
Published online: 2017-04-28
Triple negative endometrial cancer
Abstract
Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most common malignancy of the female genital tract in the developed countries. In Poland, EC incidence increased from 3.496 to 5.251 between 2000 and 2011, with 5.251 new cases were diagnosed in 2011 alone, and this upward trend is expected to continue. There are two types of endometrial cancer: estrogen- related type I (approximately 80% of the cases) and unrelated to estrogen type II. Type I includes adenocarcinomas which grow slowly, have better prognosis, superficially infiltrate the myometrium, originate from endometrial hyperplasia without atypia, and occur before and after menopause. The most common type I mutations include PTEN, KRAS and microsatellite instability. Type II is represented by serous, mucinous, clear-cell carcinomas, with aggressive behavior associated with poor prognosis, high risk of distant metastases at diagnosis, deeper infiltration of the uterine muscle, often to serosa, originating from the atrophic endometrium, and typically presenting after menopause. The most common type II mutations include TP53, HER-2 and P16.
Keywords: triple negative phenomenendometrial cancertriple negative endometrial cancer
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