Noah Charles Peeri, Kimberly A Bertrand, Renhua Na, Immaculata De Vivo, Veronica Wendy Setiawan, Venkatraman E Seshan, Laia Alemany, Yu Chen, Megan A Clarke, Tess Clendenen, Linda S Cook, Laura Costas, Luigino Dal Maso, Jo L Freudenheim, Christine M Friedenreich, Gretchen L Gierach, Marc T Goodman, Carlo La Vecchia, Fabio Levi, Marta Lopez-Querol, Lingeng Lu, Kirsten B Moysich, George Mutter, Jeffin Naduparambil, Eva Negri, Kelli O'Connell, Tracy O'Mara, Julie R Palmer, Fabio Parazzini, Kathryn Lee Penney, Stacey Petruzella, Peggy Reynolds, Fulvio Ricceri, Harvey Risch, Thomas E Rohan, Carlotta Sacerdote, Sven Sandin, Xiao-Ou Shu, Rachael Z Stolzenberg-Solomon, Penelope M Webb, Nicolas Wentzensen, Lynne R Wilkens, Wanghong Xu, Herbert Yu, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Wei Zheng, Xingyi Guo, Loren Lipworth, Mengmeng Du
BACKGROUND: The American Cancer Society recommends physicians inform average risk women about endometrial cancer (EC) risk on reaching menopause, but new diagnoses are rising fastest in women <50 years. Educating these women about EC risks requires knowledge of risk factors. However, EC in young women is rare and challenging to study in single study populations. METHODS: We included 13,846 incident EC patients (1,639 < 50 years) and 30,569 matched control individuals from the Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer Consortium...
September 5, 2024: Journal of the National Cancer Institute