Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, USA.
Nezhat Surgery for Gynecology/Oncology, New York, NY, USA.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2020;1242:59-72. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-38474-6_4.
This chapter focuses on premalignant and malignant diseases of the endometrium (lining of the uterus). Endometrial carcinoma is the most common gynecologic cancer in the United States. Women have a 1 in 40 lifetime risk of being diagnosed with endometrial cancer, the fourth most common malignancy among women. An estimated 61,880 new diagnoses of uterine cancer and 12,160 deaths from the disease occurred in 2019 in the United States (American Cancer Society, Facts & Figures, https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/uterine/statistics/index.htm , 2019).
本章重点介绍子宫内膜（子宫内层）的癌前病变和恶性疾病。子宫内膜癌是美国最常见的妇科癌症。女性一生中患子宫内膜癌的风险为 1/40，是女性中第四大常见恶性肿瘤。据估计，2019 年美国有 61880 例新诊断的子宫癌病例和 12160 例死于该病的病例（美国癌症协会，事实与数据，https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/uterine/statistics/index.htm ，2019 年）。
