title: Correlation of presenting symptoms and patient characteristics with endometrial cancer prognosis in Japanese women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether patient characteristics and presenting symptoms could be prognostic indicators for endometrial cancer in Japanese women.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of the medical charts, which included presenting symptoms and other patient characteristics, of 242 women who underwent surgical treatment for FIGO stage I-IV endometrial cancer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  FIGO stage, histologic grade, and lower abdominal pain were found to be significant independent factors for progression-free and overall survival. In contrast, abnormal uterine bleeding, comorbidities, and prior malignancy were not found to be prognostic factors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Lower abdominal pain was found to be an independent prognostic factor in endometrial cancer among Japanese women.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan. kodama@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kodama
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Seki
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ojima
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hongo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hiramatsu
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015992:Body Mass Index; D018196:Carcinoma, Adenosquamous / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D015897:Comorbidity; D018450:Disease Progression; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008796:Metrorrhagia / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate