is 4 millimeters or greater,” Doll says.
“But not all endometrial cancer increases the lining thickness,” she adds in a news release. “In addition, non-cancerous fibroids can make the lining harder to measure.”
Doll and her colleagues used U.S.-wide data to create a simulated group of more than 367,000 women with postmenopausal bleeding, including nearly 37,000 with endometrial cancer.
The group included both Black women and white women.
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“This puts Black women at a higher risk of false-negative results,” Doll says. “That is unacceptable in a group that is already the most vulnerable to the worst outcomes of endometrial cancer.”
