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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Obstetrics and Gynecology International Volume 2010, Article ID 465162, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2010/465162 Research Article The Association between Primary Endometrioid Carcinoma of the Ovary and Synchronous Malignancy of the Endometrium 1 2 3 ´ 1 Catharina C. van Niekerk, Johan Bulten, G. Peter Vooijs, and Andre L. M. Verbeek 1 Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Health Technology Assessment, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Pathology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3 Institute of Technical Medicine, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands Correspondence should be addressed to Catharina C. van Niekerk, wicacl@wxs.nl Received 16 July 2009; Accepted 17 September 2009 Academic Editor: Robert Mclellan Copyright © 2010 Catharina C. van Niekerk et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective. Ovarian and endometrial cancers coincide rather frequently in the same patient. Few data are available on the involvement of the specific morphological subtypes. To identify histological pathways in the synchronous occurrence, a population-based study was performed in The Netherlands. Methods. Using the national pathology database (PALGA) information of ovarian cancers and of earlier or later cancer in the endometrium was obtai