Neoadjuvant therapy of endometrial cancer with the aromatase inhibitor letrozole: endocrine and clinical effects.

Objective: To investigate the short-term hormonal and clinical effects of the aromatase inhibitor letrozole (Femara) in patients with endometrial cancer.

Materials And Methods: Ten previously untreated, post-menopausal patients (mean age 59 years) with endometrial cancer, predominantly stage I disease, received letrozole 2.5mg per day for 14 days before surgery.

CYP17 genetic polymorphism in endometrial cancer: are only steroids involved?

Initiation and/or promotion of endometrial cancer is known to be associated with estrogen and androgen (androstenedione) excess as well as with hyperinsulinemia/insulin resistance. It is possible that some allelic polymorphisms of the genes involved in steroidogenesis or steroid metabolism contribute to endometrial cancer susceptibility. We evaluated here the role of CYP17 biallelic (MspAI) polymorphism in 114 endometrial cancer patients compared with 182 healthy women.

CYP19 gene polymorphism in endometrial cancer patients.

Purpose: Initiation/promotion of endometrial cancer is known to be associated with estrogenic influence. Therefore, it is possible that some allelic polymorphisms of the genes involved in steroidogenesis or steroid metabolism contribute to endometrial cancer susceptibility.

Methods: Here, we compared CYP19 (aromatase) gene polymorphism in 85 endometrial cancer patients and in 110 non-affected women.

Catecholestrogens excretion in smoking and non-smoking postmenopausal women receiving estrogen replacement therapy.

Estrogens are involved in the etiology of breast cancer. Their blastomogenic influence may be partly realized through their conversion into catecholestrogens, rate of which may be modified by smoking. The risk of having breast cancer diagnosed can increase in women using estrogen replacement therapy (ERT).