RATIONALE: Endometrial cancer patients with lung metastases are rare, and more rarely with long-term management of progesterone after recurrence. PATIENT CONCERNS: Informed consent of the patients and their families. DIAGNOSES: Endometria…
BACKGROUND: Most cervical cancer patients worldwide receive surgical treatments, and yet the current International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) staging system do not consider surgical-pathologic data. We propose a more com…
Endometriosis is a steroid-dependent complex disease. The oestrogen receptor plays an important role by mediating oestrogen action and eutopic or ectopic endometrium development. This study investigated whether single-nucleotide polymorphis…
BACKGROUND: miRNAs are a group of small RNA molecules regulating target genes by inducing mRNA degradation or translational repression. Aberrant expression of miRNAs correlates with various cancers. Although miR-135a has been implicated in …
OBJECTIVE: To establish more effective diagnostic procedures to identify the characteristic features of abdominopelvic tuberculosis (APTB) mimicking advanced ovarian cancer. METHODS: A retrospective review of 20 cases of APTB mimicking adv…