Cancer Research Journal » Thyroid Cancer http://cancerresearchjournal.com Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:01:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Swedish Team Shows Endometriosis Substantially Increases Risk of Certain Cancers http://cancerresearchjournal.com/2007/07/05/swedish-team-shows-endometriosis-substantially-increases-risk-of-certain-cancers/ http://cancerresearchjournal.com/2007/07/05/swedish-team-shows-endometriosis-substantially-increases-risk-of-certain-cancers/#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:54:10 +0000 Lisa http://cancerresearchjournal.com/2007/07/05/swedish-team-shows-endometriosis-substantially-increases-risk-of-certain-cancers/ Researchers in have found that women with have a 37 percent greater chance of developing than women in the general population, regardless of the number of times they have given birth. Additionally, they have documented an increased rate of malignant , and , and , and among endometriosis patients.

Information on the study was presented by Dr Anna-Sofia Melin at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the held on . Dr Melin stated that more investigation would be needed before improved treatment recommendations could be provided to doctors.

“Our hope is that doctors in general start to view the endometriosis disease as a serious disease that causes a lot of suffering to the patient and also may lead to cancer. We hope that in the furture we will be able to identify those women with endometriosis that may have a more aggressive form of disease with more atypical cells, for instance, and that this may lead to better care for the patient and, hopefully, to an early diagnosis if cancer should occur.”
– Dr Anna-Sofia Melin

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