J. Salvador Saldivar, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the Division of Gynecology Oncology, Department of Ob/GYN, TTUHSC Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, recently edited the book, Cancer of the Uterine Endometrium – Advances and Controversies. Dr. Saldivar also contributed a chapter titled “Hereditary Endometrial Carcinoma.” He collaborated with international researchers for his book and chapter on hereditary endometrial carcinoma.
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological cancer in women in the United States. Its most prevalent form is associated with a high estrogenic state as seen in obesity and associated disorders such as diabetes and polycysctic ovarian syndrome. Less common, endometrial cancer can be inherited along with colon cancer in some high risk families, according to Saldivar.
In his clinical practice in El Paso, Dr. Saldivar offers genetic risk testing for endometrial cancer and other hereditary cancers. His clinic is called Genetic Cancer Risk Assessment Clinic, which opened in 2010. The risk test measures a patient’s risk for developing a hereditary cancer, like breast, ovarian, uterine and colon cancers seen in Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer and Lynch Syndrome families, among others, based on personal/family history and subsequent genetic testing.
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