Review Article
Genetics of Endometrial Cancers
Table 1
Clinical and pathological features of endometrial carcinoma.
| | Type I (EEC) | Type II (NEEC) |
| Age | Pre- and perimenopausal | Postmenopausal | Behavior | Stable | Progressive | Grade | Low | High | Hyperplasia-precursor | Present | Absent | Unopposed estrogen | Present | Absent | Myometrial invasion | Minimal | Deep | Specific Subtypes | Endometrioid carcinoma | Non-endometrioid carcinoma | Prevalence | 70–80% | 10–20% | Risk factors | Obesity, anovulation, nulliparity and exogenous estrogen exposure | In atropic endometrium |
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