The presence of an endometrioid component does not alter the clinicopathologic profile or survival of patients with uterine serous cancer: A gynecologic oncology group (GOG/NRG) study of 934 women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

While most cases of endometrial cancer can readily be classified as pure endometrioid, pure serous, or another type, others show an apparent mixture of serous and endometrioid components, or indeterminate serous versus endometrioid features. Since serous histology carries a worse prognosis than endometrioid, Gynecologic Oncology Group protocol GOG-8032 was established to examine whether the presence of a non-serous component is a favorable feature in an otherwise serous cancer.

Methods

934 women with serous cancer were prospectively identified among a larger group enrolled in GOG-0210. Six expert gynecologic pathologists classified each case as pure serous (SER, n=663), mixed serous and endometrioid (SER-EM-M, n=138), or indeterminate serous v. endometrioid (SER-EM

SUBMITTER: Hagemann IS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8188294 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature