Knowledge of Endometrial Cancer Risk Factors in a General Gynecologic Population

Abstract

(Abstracted from Gynecol Oncol 2020;158:137–142) Obesity is a preventable condition that is associated with heart disease, diabetes, certain types of cancer, and innumerable other conditions causing significant morbidity and mortality in the United States. Despite that type 1 endometrial cancer (EC) was the first cancer to be associated with obesity, many women are unaware of the evidence-based association between obesity and EC.