Lead Sponsor

Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island

Collaborators

Age

18 - 100 years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

•1. clinical stage 1 or 2 (disease confined to the uterus) endometrial carcinoma or complex atypical hyperplasia
•2. answer yes to one screening question: "Do you ever leak urine when you cough, sneeze, jump or laugh?" We will include women with complex atypical hyperplasia (CAH) because 40% of these women will have an endometrial cancer identified at the time of surgery and the risk factors are the same for CAH as they are for clinical stage 1 and 2 endometrial cancers

•Women will be excluded if they have
•1. clinical stage 3 and 4 endometrial cancer
•2. prior pelvic radiation therapy
•3. vesicovaginal fistula
•4. urethrovaginal fistula.
•We are excluding women with vesicovaginal fistula or urethrovaginal fistula due to the risk of infection when placing a midurethral sling.