Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer in North of Iran

Background: endometrial cancer is the most common type of malignancy of the female reproductive system and constitutes the fourth common cancer after breast, lungs and colorectal cancers. our aim is to report the epidemiology and frequency of endometrial cancer as well as the clinical staging and grading of this disease. methods: in this descriptive, cross-sectional study, 75 patients diagnosed with endometrial cancer, admitted to the surgical ward of rouhani hospital or shahid rajaii hospital in iran were enrolled. demographic characteristics of patients, staging and grading and other variables related to endometrial cancer were collected and data was processed by spss version 18 software. results: diabetes, hypertension and obesity had frequencies of 36%, 26.7% and 85.3%, respectively. the mean count of abortion was 0.47, mean count of delivery was 3.71, mean age of menarche was 13.73 years and most frequent age of first delivery pertained to the range of 19-24 years old (n = 47, 62.7%). a high percentage of patients had entered menopause under 39 years of age (n = 25, 33.3%). three patients (4%) had a history of breast cancer and using tamoxifen. only six cases (8%) had a history of irregularities menstruation. in total, 58 patients were in stage 1 and 17 were in other stages. totally, 77.2% of patients have endometrioid and 13 patients suffered from sarcoma. conclusions: most patients with endometrial cancer had endometrioid. time of delivery and abortion, lower age of menarche and age at menopause and at the first delivery appeared to be associated with endometrial cancer.