Uterine cancer

Uterine cancer
Classification and external resources
Malignant tumor of the uterus
ICD-10	C54
ICD-9	179
MeSH	D014594

This article is about cancer of the uterus. For cancer of the ureter, see Ureteral cancer.

The term uterine cancer may refer to any of several different types of cancer which occur in the uterus, namely:

• Uterine sarcomas: sarcomas of the myometrium, or muscular layer of the uterus, are most commonly leiomyosarcomas.
• Endometrial cancer:

• Endometrial carcinomas originate from cells in the glands of the endometrium (uterine lining). These include the common and readily treatable well-differentiated endometrioid adenocarcinoma, as well as the more aggressive uterine papillary serous carcinoma and uterine clear-cell carcinoma.
• Endometrial stromal sarcomas originate from the connective tissues of the endometrium, and are far less common than endometrial carcinomas.
• Malignant mixed Müllerian tumors are rare endometrial tumors which show both glandular (carcinomatous) and stromal (sarcomatous) differentiation – carcinosarcoma behaves similar to a high grade carcinoma, and it is felt to be of epithelial origin rather than true sarcoma.

• Cervical cancer arises from the transformation zone of the cervix, the lower portion of the uterus and connects to the upper aspect of the vagina.
• Gestational trophoblastic disease relates to neoplastic processes originating from tissue of a pregnancy that often is located in the uterus.

Age-standardized death from cancer of the uterine body per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004.

  no data

  less than 0.5

  0.5-1

  1-1.5

  1.5-2

  2-2.5

  2.5-3

  3-3.5

  3.5-4

  4-4.5

  4.5-5

  5-8

  more than 8

External links

• Clinically reviewed uterine cancer information for patients from Cancer Research UK
• UK uterine cancer statistics from Cancer Research UK