[The assessment of the prognostic factors for the development of cancer in patients with hemorrhages in the presence of endometrial atrophy]

A total of 95 women aged 47 to 72 were examined with a history of bloody discharge in the postmenopause. Sex hormones, hydrocortisone, thyroid hormones, blood lipids and serotonin, noradrenaline and adrenalin excretion were assessed. Histologic examinations of endometrial scrapings off were carried out in all the cases. A table for prediction of endometrial diseases has been created on the basis of the findings. Cancer development risk factors were singled out.