The incidence rates of endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer: a four-year population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The aim of this study was to determine the incidence rates of endometrial hyperplasia (EH) and endometrial cancer (EC) in the Republic of Korea using national insurance claim data generated from 2009 to 2012.

Materials and methods

Data that were generated from 2009 to 2012 were sourced from the Korean Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service-National Inpatients Sample database. The data from women who were assigned diagnosis codes representing EH or EC within 1 month of being assigned codes that corresponded to procedures that included endometrial biopsies and several types of gynecologic surgeries to obtain endometrial pathology samples, were selected for analysis.

Results

Data from 2,477,424 women were entered into the database between 2009 and 20

SUBMITTER: Yuk JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5012286 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature