The Intrauterine Device: How to Deploy This Strategy in the Molecular World?

Paul Johannet & Claire F. Friedman

Summary

Progestin-based therapy can safely be offered to a subset of patients with atypical endometrial hyperplasia or grade 1 endometrioid endometrial cancer who desire fertility preservation. A recent study shows that levonorgestrel intrauterine device confers durable clinical benefit and identifies possible immune mechanisms of relapse and resistance.

See related article by Bowen et al., p. 5073

Funding
PathologyPathology

NCI NIH HHS

P30 CA008748

National Cancer Institute

P30 CA008748