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Body mass index: relationship to clinical, pathologic and features of microsatellite instability in endometrial cancer.
Gynecologic oncology - 1 Mar 2007
McCourt Carolyn K, Mutch David G, Gibb Randall K, Rader Janet S, Goodfellow Paul J, Trinkaus Kathryn, Powell Matthew A
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OBJECTIVES: There is a well known association between obesity and endometrial cancer. We sought to examine the relationships between body mass index (BMI), as a measure of obesity, and known demographic, clinical, and molecular characteristics of microsatellite instability and MLH1 promoter methylation in a cohort of patients with endometrial cancer. METHODS: Corpus cancer specimens were prospectively obtained...
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