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The past decade has witnessed significant advances in our knowledge of endometrial cancer. Careful surgical staging has more clearly elucidated spread patterns of early disease, and prognostic variables have been better defined. This has allowed more individualization of treatment.
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Hacker, N.F. (1991). Surgery for Endometrial Carcinoma. In: Kleine, W., Meerpohl, HG., Pfleiderer, A., Profous, C.Z. (eds) Therapie des Endometriumkarzinoms. AGO Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Gynäkologische Onkologie. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76950-4_9
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