Endometriosi e cancro
Endometriosis, a common condition in reproductive-aged women, is associated with an increased risk of developing various extrauterine cancers, particularly ovarian cancer.
One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works
The paper reviews the relationship between endometriosis and cancer, emphasizing epidemiologic links and histopathologic evidence for progression in a subset of cases. It describes how endometriosis is associated with increased risks of ovarian and extra-ovarian malignancies, and discusses pathologic criteria and limits of evidence for direct emergence of cancer from endometriosis, noting that clear transition zones are seen in only about a quarter of endometriosis-associated ovarian carcinomas, while endometriosis deposits are more frequent in certain histotypes. It further summarizes molecular alterations reported in endometriosis and their proposed roles in precancerous progression, including PTEN mutation, h-MLH1 silencing, p-53 overexpression, increased Ki-67, DNA aneuploidy, LOH, aromatase activity, and COX-2 overexpression, including the authors’ own immunohistochemical findings in 136 endometriosis cases. The paper highlights that data are not yet sufficient in some areas, such as COX-2 expression differences across endometriosis stages and uncertainty about aromatase expression in typical versus atypical lesions and EAOC, and it explicitly presents COX-2 context using their series rather than providing a comprehensive limitation assessment. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it focuses on how endometriosis relates to cancer risk and potential molecular/histopathologic progression pathways, including specific mention of adenomyosis in the COX-2 comparison.
Read from the paper's body, not the abstract. Not a substitute for reading the paper. No clinical advice. How this works
Abstract
My notes (saved in your browser only)
Citation neighborhood
Papers in the corpus that this work cites (lower rings, blue) and that cite this one (upper rings, green). Dot size scales with the paper's in-corpus citation count — bigger dot = more influential within the endo/adeno field. Click a dot to open that paper. [ expand to 2 hops ] — adds papers reached through this work's immediate citers/citees. Heavier; up to 60 extra dots.
References (32)
- Allelotyping of endometriosis with adjacent ovarian carcinoma reveals evidence of a common lineage. via openalex
- Analysis of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression in different sites of endometriosis and correlation with clinico-pathological parameters via openalex
- <b>Ovarian atypical endometriosis: its close association with malignant epithelial tumours</b> via openalex
- Cancer risk after a hospital discharge diagnosis of endometriosis via openalex
- Distribution of cyclooxygenase-2 in eutopic and ectopic endometrium in endometriosis and adenomyosis via openalex
- EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ENDOMETRIOSIS via openalex
- Evidence that Endometriosis Behaves in a Malignant Manner via openalex
- Histologic Transformation of Benign Endometriosis to Early Epithelial Ovarian Cancer via openalex
- Increased prevalence of p53 overexpression from typical endometriosis to atypical endometriosis and ovarian cancer associated with endometriosis via openalex
- Loss of heterozygosity on 10q23.3 and mutation of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN in benign endometrial cyst of the ovary: possible sequence progression from benign endometrial cyst to endometrioid carcinoma and clear cell carcinoma of the ovary. via openalex
- Malignant changes in endometriosis. via openalex
- Ovarian Endometriosis Associated with Ovarian Carcinoma: A Clinicopathological and Immunohistochemical Study via openalex
- Ovarian Endometriotic Cysts:<i>An Analysis of Cytologic Atypia and DNA Ploidy Patterns</i> via openalex
- Possible involvement of <i>hMLH1, p16</i><sup><i>INK4a</i></sup> and <i>PTEN</i> in the malignant transformation of endometriosis via openalex
- Precursor lesions of ovarian epithelial malignancy via openalex
- Prevalence of endometriosis in malignant epithelial ovary tumours via openalex
- Prevalence of Endometriosis in Ovarian Cancer via openalex
- W2053827853 via openalex
- W1996130791 via openalex
- W1985920371 via openalex
- W2097865940 via openalex
- W1973577899 via openalex
- W1935114338 via openalex
- W2144667889 via openalex
- W2146708145 via openalex
- W1911329982 via openalex
- W1614313922 via openalex
- W2002621545 via openalex
- W1546101705 via openalex
- W2034066784 via openalex
- W2042316019 via openalex
- W2043707891 via openalex
Source provenance
- openalex
- last seen: 2026-06-10T17:14:06.276822+00:00