[Endometrial cancer].

Dtsch Med Wochenschr

Published: March 2025

Novel developments in the diagnosis and treatment of endometrial cancer will likely improve the prognosis of early, advanced and recurrent tumors. Molecular pathology currently classifies endometrial carcinoma into 4 molecular subtypes with prognostic significance. POLE mutated tumors, amounting to about 7% of all endometrial cancer cases, dubbed "ultra-mutated", have an excellent prognosis in early stages - even without adjuvant therapy. Mismatch repair deficient (MMRd) tumors are called "hypermutated" and have an intermediate prognosis in early stages. In advanced stages, they are highly sensitive to immune checkpoint inhibitors which are an integral part of their treatment. The tumors with "no specific molecular profile" have a prognosis that is similar to MMRd endometrial cancers. Finally, TP53 mutated cancers have a dismal prognosis, and aggressive adjuvant therapy is indicated. The 2023 FIGO classification recognizes for the first time the prognostically favorable synchronous endometrial and ovarian carcinomas, the importance of lymph node metastases depending on size and pattern, and the relevance of peritoneal involvement inside versus outside the pelvis. In metastatic disease, in mismatch repair proficient cases, the combination of carboplatin and paclitaxel chemotherapy with durvalumab has been recently approved as first line therapy in the European Union, followed by maintenance therapy with the PARP inhibitor olaparib, in combination with durvalumab. For MMRd tumors, several immune checkpoint inhibitors in combination with chemotherapy or as monotherapy have been approved in recent years. Tumors that are overexpressing Her2/neu have an additional treatment option with trastuzumab.

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