[Evaluation of the degree of biological behavior in endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial carcinoma: an investigation of proliferative activity, oncogene, and extracellular matrix].

Abstract excerpt

Endometrial cancers have been considered to be less prevalent in Japan than in Western countries. However, with the increase in life expectancy, the Westernization of the Japanese diet, and changes in the hormonal environment, the prevalence of the disease has gradually increased even in our coun...

Topics

• DNA, Neoplasm
• Endometrial Hyperplasia
• Endometrial Neoplasms
• Extracellular Matrix Proteins
• Female
• Humans
• Mutation
• Neoplasm Staging
• Nuclear Proteins
• Ploidies
• Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen
• Proto-Oncogenes
• Tumor Cells, Cultured