epidemiology

Last edited 05/2019

Endometrial carcinoma is the sixth most common malignancy in females worldwide with an estimated incidence of about 288 000 new cases in the year 2008. In developed countries it is the fourth most common cancer in women (1).

• more than 90% of cases seen in women older than 50 years of age, with a median age of 63 years
• in recent years, the incidence of endometrial cancer has increased in postmenopausal women while in premenopausal and perimenopausal women it has been stable or decreasing (2)

In UK it is the fourth most common cancer in women behind breast, lung, and colorectal cancers

• are around 9,100 new uterine cancer cases in the UK every year, that's 25 every day (2013-2015)
  
  
• in females in the UK, uterine cancer is the 4th most common cancer, with around 9,000 new cases in 2015
  
  
• uterine cancer accounts for 5% of all new cancer cases in females in the UK (2015). Incidence rates for uterine cancer in the UK are highest in females aged 75 to 79 (2013-2015)
  
  
• since the early 1990s, uterine cancer incidence rates have increased by almost three-fifths (56%) in females in the UK
  
  
• over the last decade, uterine cancer incidence rates have increased by around a fifth (21%) in females in the UK
  
  
• most uterine cancers occur in the endometrium
  
  
• uterine cancer incidence in England is not associated with deprivation
  
  
• uterine cancer is as common in White, Asian and Black females
  
  
• an estimated 70,200 women who had previously been diagnosed with uterine cancer were alive in the UK at the end of 2010

Reference:

• (1) Colombo N et al. Endometrial cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. Ann Oncol. 2013;24 Suppl 6:vi33-8 
• (2) Saso S et al. Endometrial cancer. BMJ. 2011;343:d3954
• (3) CRUK. Uterine Cancer Statistics (Accessed 29/5/2019)