Synchronous primary ovarian and endometrial cancer with a fair prognosis in a young woman.

摘要

Synchronous primary ovarian and endometrial cancers are quite unusual based on our previous experience [1,2]. Confirmative diagnosis depends on the pathologic recognition of different histologic patterns. Although some researchers have tried to determine the underlying mechanisms for the development of synchronous tumors using advanced molecular or clonal analysis, the etiologies of such tumors remain unclear [3-6]. A recently proposed hypothesis suggests that the etiology of synchronous cancers is related to the embryologi-cally similar organs that develop synchronous neoplasms when they are simultaneously subjected to carcinogens.