2020/08/12 by José María Tovar- Rodríguez, Víctor Manuel Vargas-Hernández · 1 voice
Medicine · #Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments #Endometriosis Research and Treatment #Uterine Myomas and Treatments
paper · pdf · doi:10.29328/journal.cjog.1001057
openalex publication_date 2020/08/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Endometriosis is a common benign disease in women of reproductive age, it has been associated with an increased risk of various malignancies that is defined by certain histological criteria mainly 80% in ovary and 20% in extragonadal sites such as intestine, rectovaginal septum, abdominal wall, pleura and others; the greatest risk for colorectal cancer is women with adenomyosis or endometriosis; Several genetic alterations have been found in the risk of endometriosis associated with cancer; The symptomatology, imaging and endoscopic characteristics simulate other inflammatory and malignant lesions that make the preoperative diagnosis of extragonadal endometriosis difficult. This is a review of the knowledge about endometriosis and its potential risk of malignancy, particularly with colorectal cancer