[Obesity and characteristics of endometrial cancer: are there any changes over several decades?]

Vopr Onkol. 2015;61(4):575-9.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

It is shown that endometrial cancer features (including expression of the PTEN and HER-2/neu proteins) are connected dissimilarly with body mass index and with the belonging of the patients to the groups with standard, SO and metabolically healthy obesity, MHO. In the course of the last half-century an increases are discovered in the height and weight of the females with endometrial cancer that moves in the opposite direction with a reduction of the share of MHO cases among obese patients. This conclusion should be taken into account when one considers the means for contemporary prevention of both obesity and cancer of uterine body.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / analysis*
  • Body Mass Index*
  • Endometrial Neoplasms / chemistry
  • Endometrial Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Female
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
  • Humans
  • Insulin Resistance
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Obesity / metabolism
  • Obesity / pathology*
  • PTEN Phosphohydrolase / analysis
  • Receptor, ErbB-2 / analysis
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • ERBB2 protein, human
  • Receptor, ErbB-2
  • PTEN Phosphohydrolase
  • PTEN protein, human