Endometrial adenocarcinoma: clinical outcome in 881 patients and analysis of 146 patients whose deaths were due to endometrial cancer.

ABSTRACT

Throughout 1970-1975, 881 patients were treated at Departments I and II of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital. They were treated mainly by using surgery and/or radiotherapy combined with adjuvant progestin therapy. The over-all uncorrected 5-year survival rate was 72.2% and corrected rate was 82.1%. In 146 out of 245 cases death was due to endometrial cancer, and this group was analyzed separately.