New Insights into Endometrial Cancer.
Laura PaleariSilvia PesceMariangela RutiglianiMarco GreppiValentina ObinoFranco GorleroValerio Gaetano VelloneEmanuela MarcenaroPublished in: Cancers (2021)
EC is the most common cancer in the female genital tract in developed countries, and with its increasing incidence due to risk factors, such as aging and obesity, tends to become a public health issue. Although EC is a hormone-dependent neoplasm, there are no recommendations for the determination of steroid hormone receptors in the tumor tissue and no hormone therapy has ever been assessed in the adjuvant setting. Furthermore, its immune environment has been slightly characterized, but recent evidences point out how EC microenvironment may increase self-tolerance by reducing the recruitment of cytotoxic immune cells to the tumor site and/or modifying their phenotype, making these cells no longer able to suppress tumor growth. Here we highlight insights for EC management from diagnosis to a desirable trend of personalized treatment.
Keyphrases
- endometrial cancer
- risk factors
- public health
- induced apoptosis
- metabolic syndrome
- type diabetes
- stem cells
- insulin resistance
- early stage
- papillary thyroid
- weight loss
- cell cycle arrest
- low grade
- oxidative stress
- cell death
- squamous cell
- endoplasmic reticulum stress
- squamous cell carcinoma
- cell proliferation
- mesenchymal stem cells
- signaling pathway
- solid phase extraction
- pi k akt