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Who is more likely to be diagnosed with uterine cancer?
Endometrial cancer is increasingly common in premenopausal women.
Uterine cancer or endometrial cancer is a neoplastic disease that occurs in the lining (endometrium) inside the uterine lining (the side of the uterine cavity). Uterine cancer most often occurs in postmenopausal women (postmenopause), but in recent years there has been a tendency for them to become "rejuvenated." Uterine cancer is increasingly common in women of reproductive age before menopause.
Together with specialists from the Voronezh Regional Center for Clinical Oncology, we will find out who is at risk for developing malignant neoplasms of the uterus and why this disease develops.
In most cases, this cancer develops against the background of estrogenization of the female body. Against the background of excess female sex hormones estrogens. This type of uterine cancer is called the first pathogenic. It accounts for 75% of all cases of endometrial cancer.
Excess estrogen is, on the one hand, a consequence of hormonal disorders, and on the other hand, it itself aggravates these hormonal disorders. The mucous membrane of the uterus reacts in a specific way to excess estrogen, which leads to endometrial hyperplasia.
Who is most often diagnosed with this disease?
Risk factors include obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, i.e. metabolic disorders. Estrogen is produced in a woman's fatty tissue. Excess fatty tissue leads to excess estrogen. Pathological blood circulation is closed.
Early stage endometrial cancer often has no symptoms. The main clinical symptoms may be bloody discharge from the genitals, watery discharge and pain. Bloody discharge may vary from periodic and scanty bleeding to heavy bleeding.
Particular attention is needed if these symptoms appear after menopause, that is, during the period of decreased reproductive function, which begins after menopause and continues until 65–70 years of age or until the end of life.
In the presence of such complaints, hysteroscopy with separate diagnostic curettage of the mucous membrane of the body and cervix of the uterus or biopsy of pathological foci is prescribed. The removed material is examined cytologically and histologically.
Most patients with uterine cancer are diagnosed in the early stages of the disease. Most patients with uterine cancer can be completely cured if treatment is started in the early stages.
Delaying the start of specialized treatment reduces the chances of a full recovery. If left untreated, the disease will progress and spread, affecting more and more organs.