This week's artwork was donated by Gavin, a pediatric cancer patient who received treatment at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia . Prognostic significance of hormone receptors in endometrial cancer.
Endometrial carcinoma is the most common female pelvic genital malignancy.
As a result, prognostic factors have been evaluated in an attempt to identify those patients with presumed early stage disease who will be at high risk for recurrence. Two hundred seventeen patients with Stage I and II endometrial cancers were evaluated for cytoplasmic steroid-receptor status. These results were compared with other prognostic factors in both univariant and multivariant analysis. The receptor status was also a significant independent prognostic factor when evaluated by stepwise proportional hazards regression analysis. Hormone receptor status in endometrial cancer appears to be an important prognostic factor.