Sensitivity of cervical cytology in endometrial cancer detection in a tertiary hospital in Spain.

Jon Frias-GomezEva TovarAugust VidalLluis MurguiRaquel IbáñezPaula Peremiquel-TrillasSonia PaytubiNuria BaixerasAlba ZancaJordi PonceMarta PinedaJoan BrunetSilvia de SanjoséFrancesc Xavier BoschXavier M GuiuLaia AlemanyLaura Costasnull null

Published in: Cancer medicine (2021)

We observed a low sensitivity of cervical cytology to effectively diagnose endometrial cancer. However, recent technological advances using genomics and epigenomics may offer a promising perspective to detect endometrial cancer with high sensitivity in these cervical specimens.

Keyphrases

endometrial cancer
fine needle aspiration
high grade
ultrasound guided
single cell