Local doctor to speak on endometrial cancer 
Victoria Advocate
Citizens Medical Center will host a free presentation by Dr. Tanya Seiler on endometrial cancer from 6-7 pm Thursday in the CMC Central Classroom, 2701 Hospital Drive. Endometrial cancer, or uterine cancer, is the most common gynecologic cancer in the ...

 

New Tablet for Vulvovaginal Atrophy Shows Endometrial Safety 
Medscape
"Our study results indicate that only 2% of patients showed any degree of endometrial proliferation, and there were no cases of hyperplasia or cancer," said presenter Steven Goldstein, MD, from New York University School of Medicine in New York City.

 

A guide to endometrial cancer 
Fox News
Endometrial cancer begins in the the lining of the uterus, a woman's hollow pelvic organ that fosters fetal development. Genetic mutation causes abnormal, cancerous cell growth, developing into a tumor. According to the American Cancer Society, ...

 

Esperance Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase 2 Clinical Trial of its Novel ... 
MarketWatch (press release)
Results from pre-clinical studies of EP-100 have shown that the drug regresses established tumors in breast, prostate, ovarian and endometrial cancer xenografts in mice. Preclinical results in ovarian cancer were presented at the 2009 American ...

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Senior Consult: Risk factors determine need for pelvic exams 
Florida Today
What about uterine (endometrial) cancer? According to the National Cancer Institute: ?There is no standard or routine screening test for endometrial cancer.? The American Cancer Society has removed the annual pelvic exam from its recommended screening ...

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Cancer prevention study seeks Portland volunteers 
OregonLive.com
People taking statin for five or more years had no greater risk of prostate, breast, colorectal, lung, bladder, kidney, or pancreatic cancer, and they had a slightly lower risk of melanoma, endometrial cancer, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

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Galena Biopharma Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results 
MarketWatch (press release)
FBP is over-expressed (20-80 fold) in more than 90% of ovarian and endometrial cancers, as well as 20--50% of breast, lung, colorectal, and renal cell carcinomas. FBP has very limited tissue distribution and expression in non-malignant tissue, ...

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Robotic Cancer Surgery OK for Older Women 
MedPage Today
Explain that women over age 70 undergoing staging for endometrial cancer had fewer complications with hysterectomy performed with robotic assist compared to open laparotomy. Note that intraoperative blood loss was significant less in the robotic ...

 

Should we drink coffee? 
Mother Nature Network (blog)
Coffee and cancer: There are so many studies on coffee and health, I'm sure I am not going to touch on all of them. Overall, coffee drinkers are found to have lower rates of certain cancers, including skin cancer, colon cancer, endometrial cancer and ...

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Lipocalin 2 expression is associated with aggressive features of endometrial ... 
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Increased expression of lipocalin 2 (LCN2) has been observed in several cancers. The aim ofthe present study was to investigate LCN2 in endometrial cancer in relation to clinicopathologicphenotype, angiogenesis, markers of epithelial-mesenchymal ...