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Endometrial cancer in Ibadan: epidemiological and clinico-pathological features -10 year review
Endometrial cancer is the commonest cancer of the female genital tract, it accounted for about 6 percent of all female cancers in United States. It is not as common in Africa; it was the third commonest gynaecological malignancy in an African study. The aim was to enumerate the characteristics of en...
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| 720 | |a Adekanbi, A. O. |e author | ||
| 720 | |a Jimoh, M. A. |e author | ||
| 720 | |a Ajani, M. A. |e author | ||
| 720 | |a Fawole, A. O. |e author | ||
| 260 | |c 2016 | ||
| 520 | |a Endometrial cancer is the commonest cancer of the female genital tract, it accounted for about 6 percent of all female cancers in United States. It is not as common in Africa; it was the third commonest gynaecological malignancy in an African study. The aim was to enumerate the characteristics of endometrial cancer patients: socio demographic characteristic of the endometrial cancer patients, and the association of the patients’ profile with endometrial cancer. This was a retrospective, cross sectional study of histologically diagnosed endometrial cancers at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. The data obtained were analyzed using SPSS. Endometrial cancer accounted for 3.1% of the female genital cancers; Obesity was a factor in most the patients; Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma was the commonest observed pattern. Majority of the patients were elderly obese, they never engaged in contraception. | ||
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| 024 | 8 | |a ui_art_adekanbi_endometrial_2016 | |
| 024 | 8 | |a New York Science Journal 9(3), pp. 19-23 | |
| 024 | 8 | |a https://repository.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/11892 | |
| 653 | |a Endometrial | ||
| 653 | |a Cancer | ||
| 653 | |a MEDICINE::Social medicine::Public health medicine research areas::Epidemiology | ||
| 653 | |a Pathology | ||
| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Endometrial cancer in Ibadan: epidemiological and clinico-pathological features -10 year review |