Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Cancer of the Uterus

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for uterine cancer.

Updated January 2009

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Title:   Hormone therapy in postmenopausal women and risk of endometrial hyperplasia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hormone therapy may be used to manage troublesome menopausal symptoms, but is currently recommended to be given at the lowest effective dose and regularly reviewed by a woman and her doctor. In women with an intact uterus hormone therapy comprising estr...

Title:   Adjuvant radiotherapy for stage I endometrial cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Women with stage I endometrial cancer have a low risk of recurrence of their disease. About 10% of women treated with surgery alone have a recurrence. This risk is significantly higher (and maybe double) for some women with high risk factors including g...
Date:   Feb 2007

Title:   Chemotherapy for advanced, recurrent or metastatic endometrial carcinoma
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   These women have a poor prognosis. Giving extra drugs seems to reduce disease progression by a small amount. However, it does not seem to allow women to live longer. Also, more chemotherapy seems to cause a greater amount of serious short-term side effe...
Date:   Jun 2005

Title:   Progestagens for endometrial cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   No evidence to support use of adjuvant progestagens to prevent recurrence of endometrial cancer after surgery. Endometrial cancer is becoming the most common genital tract cancer in many western countries. Progestagen (a hormone) therapy is sometimes us...
Date:   Feb 2002

Title:   Pre-operative GnRH analogue therapy before hysterectomy or myomectomy for uterine fibroids
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Smooth muscle tumours of the uterus (uterine fibroids)are usually asymptomatic, however up to 50% cause symptoms severe enough to warrant therapy, and surgery is the standard treatment. Fibroid growth is stimulated by the hormone oestrogen and gonadotro...
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