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[Indications for prophylactic hysterectomy].
Gynecologie, obstetrique & fertilite - 1 Oct 2013
Garabedian C, Lejeune S, Merlot B, Kerdraon O, Boulanger L, Collinet P
Abstract excerpt
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer in France with an incidence in France in 2010, of 6560 new cases and 1900 deaths secondary to endometrial cancer. The main risk factors are age, hyperoestrogenic factors and hereditary syndroms. Prophylactic hysterectomy could prevent endometrial cancer in case of risk factors such as genetic syndroms. Actually, only Lynch syndrome is a validate indication...
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