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[Epidemiology of uterine cancers]
1L'unité d'épidémiologie pour la prévention du cancer au centre international de recherche sur le cancer, recherche à l'Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale 150, cours Albert-Thomas 69372 Lyon. sasco@iarc.fr
Abstract:
Uterine cancers comprise 2 distinct pathological entities: cancer of the cervix and cancer of the corpus. They differ both in descriptive and etiologic epidemiology. Cervical cancer is more frequent in the developing world, is decreasing in terms of incidence and even more mortality in many countries and has essentially a viral etiology, being linked to human papilloma viruses. Cancer of the uterine corpus is more frequent in the developed world, is rather stable in terms of incidence and mostly has a hormonal etiology.