Talk:Uterine cancer

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DO NOT MERGE TO Endometrial cancer

For individuals with this cancer who are searching for ANY information regarding treatment modalities and/or specialists a merge with endometrial cancer prevents rapid location of available resources during a traumatic time, with a RARE, untreatable (except by surgery) cancer. Endometrial stromal sarcoma is a RARE cancer, an ORPHAN cancer, with no treatment or cure, which is either missed or mistaken in diagnosis. By keeping ESS separate and distinct, this aids in distinguishing it from other uterine cancers, encouraging further review, discussion, research, and, possibly development of treatment/cure. For those WITH ESS, information is VITAL, and merging it with endometrial cancers will keep information, as well as HOPE, hidden from their view.Fly669 (talk) 13:13, 19 October 2008 (UTC)Fly669

Merge to Endometrial cancer

I am suggesting this merge for several reasons:

• the term "uterine cancer" is ambiguous, generally it relates to "endometrial cancer", but it could also be cervical cancer and others. As an alternative the lemma might be utilized for disambiguation.
• Endometrial cancer is a more advanced and better article.
• The "Uterine cancer" article is inaccurate. Ekem 16:27, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I disagree - uterine cancer includes endometrial cancer, but also includes leiomyoma (fibroids), endometrial polyps and hyperplasia. We could usefully transfer the relevant article from this to the appropriate sub-articles and just make this a list of the different types of uterine cancer with links to the full articles? Nmg20 01:51, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Uterine cancer does not include non-cancerous conditions such as leiomyoma (fibroids), endometrial polyps, and hyperplasia. Ekem 22:01, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Uterine cancer does not include non-cancerous conditions, as mentioned above, nor can it be used to refer to cervical cancer. Uterine cancer does generally refer to endometrial cancer because endometrial cancer is the most common form of uterine cancer. (The endometrium is the lining of the uterus.) Uterine cancer can also refer to uterine sarcoma, which is the less common cancer that affects the muscles and supporting tissues of the uterus. Technically, uterine cancer is the umbrella term, and endometrial cancer and uterine sarcoma fall within it.

My remarks from Nov 3 still stand: I suggest to either merge Uterine cancer into Endometrial cancer, or use Uterine cancer to disambiguate to Endometrial cancer, Uterine sarcoma, and (possibly) Cervical cancer. Ekem 23:47, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Oppose merge, but support disambiguation. We should do nothing whatsoever that would promote or allow an implication that uterine sarcoma is a form of endometrial cancer. --Charlene 07:08, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation will be fine: I could go like this:

Uterine cancer refers to a malignancy of the uterine body that could be due to: Endometrial cancer, Uterine sarcoma, Other malignancies arising from the uterine body. Note also that sometimes Cervical cancer may be listed as uterine cancer. Ekem 17:18, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Oppose merge, support disambiguation. Note that there is at least one uterine cancer I can think of off the top of my head (uterine carcinosarcoma, or malignant mixed mullerian tumor) which is neither an endometrial cancer, nor a uterine sarcoma. It is uncommon, but not trivially rare. Actually, I realized belatedly that this statement is wrong - I got thown off by the mixing of classification types. While the page endometrial cancer only dicusses endometrial carcinomas, the term endometrial cancer includes all malignancies of the endometrium, including carcinomas, sarcomas, and carcinosarcomas. The term uterine sarcoma includes sarcomas of the myometrium (mostly leiomyosarcomas) as well as endometrial stromal sarcomas. All the more reason we need uterine cancer as a disambiguation page. -Rustavo^{Talk/Contribs} 19:01, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Not a disambiguation page

Ovarian cancer is one of a series of pages about cancers or tumors of specific organs. Such pages are not disambiguation pages. Instead, they usually give an overview of the types of cancers/tumors known to occur in each organ, statistics re relative incidence, differential diagnosis, and treatments. So, I have removed the disambig tag. --Una Smith (talk) 05:56, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

58k deaths in the world?

This claim seems very unlikely. I don't have access to the ref, which is offline, but I suspect this is the annual death rate for the US. Yet another example of the WP "All the world's America" syndrome. Can someone with access to the ref check this? --Ef80 (talk) 20:39, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Epidemiology Section

I will be adding to the Epidemiology section of this article, feel free to read over it or add information that you feel is necessary. Andersbc2754 (talk) 03:42, 3 December 2019 (UTC)