Risk Factors
Endometrial Cancer
- Use of hormones (estrogens without progesterones)
- Obesity
- Late menopause: after age 52
- Menometrorrhagia: hemorrhagic menses
- Stein-Leventhal syndrome: infertility, anovulatory menses, hirsutism, other endocrine abnormalities
- Family history of multiple cancers
- Personal history of breast cancer or rectal cancer
- Age: less than 5% of cases occur before the age of 40; peak incidence is 70-89 years of age
- Parity: infertility or nulliparity (no childbearing)
- Granulosa cell tumor of the ovary (rare)
- Other chronic conditions (hypertension, diabetes)
Placental Cancer
- Genetic, more common in Asians than Blacks, and least common in Caucasians
- Older women, particularly those older than 40 years
- Multiple pregnancies
- Hydatidiform mole
- Pregnancy
- Abortion
- Ectopic pregnancy
- History of other tumors of the female reproductive tract