The surgical management of morbidly obese women with endometrial cancer

• 作 者: Stephanie Kuku John Dick Adeol
• 机 构: DepartmentofGynaecologicOncology,DepartmentofGynaecologicOncology,UniversityCollegeLondonHospitals
• 出 处: 健康(英文)
• 发表日期: 2012年12期
• 关键词: OBESITY ENDOMETRIAL Cancer LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY VAGINAL SURGERY ROBOTIC SURGERY

There is an obesity epidemic in the Western World. Currently one in four adults is obese and three in ten children in the UK is overweight or obese [1]. The UK Foresight Study [2] predicts that if nothing is done, this figure will rise to five in ten (50%