Late deaths from endometrial carcinoma.
An analysis has been made of all the patients with endometrial carcinoma who were seen in our department between 1959 and 1968. A total of 155 patients with a minimum follow-up period of 5 years were evaluated. About 20% of the patients who die, do so more than 5 years after diagnosis and treatment of the primary cancer. A disconcertingly high incidence of death from active tumours is found when patients are followed up for long enough, i.e. 1 in 3 patients who do not die of intercurrent disease. Late deaths are even caused by poorly-differentiated tumours, and also by haematogenous spread. When the results of different treatment regimens are compared, it will thus be necessary to take 10-year survival rates into account.
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000401:mortality; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery