Is Uterine Cancer Treatment ?

Is uterine cancer treatment? Surgery is the main treatment of uterine cancer. Radiation therapy (radiation), chemotherapy or hormone treatment can also be used. The treatment recommended depends mainly on the stag and your overall health condition.

For example:

• The treatment can be aimed at curing cancer. In most cases of uterine cancer, the condition is detected at an early stage. Then there is a good chance of cure. (Doctors usually use the word "remission" instead of the word "cure." Remission means there is no evidence of cancer after treatment. If you are in remission, you can cure completely, but sometimes cancer occurs after months or years back, therefore, doctors are sometimes hesitant for the use of the word healed). If after 5 years no cancer has returned, then a cure is usually called.
• The treatment can be aimed at controlling (controlling) cancer. If there is no chance of cure, treatment can limit growth or sowing so that the cancer process goes faster. This way you can have relatively few complaints about a long time.
• Pain relievers or treatments of other symptoms. Sometimes the size of cancer can be affected to reduce the size and, for example, less pain.

Surgery
Most common treatment is a removal of the uterus (hysterectomy) and ovaries. Nowadays, this can often be laparoscopic (no more via a stomach, but through a few holes in the abdominal wall, which allows a scoop to be inserted in which instruments are raised to remove the organs. Surgery may be "healing" if there is no sowing.

If cancer has spread to other parts of the body, surgery may still be advised, often in addition to other treatments. Even when the cancer is advanced and healing is not possible then surgery can still be used to relieve symptoms. For example, a barrier of intestines or urinary tracts due to sowing.

Radiation therapy (radiation)
Radiation is directed to the malignant tissue. The radiation kills cancer cells or causes the cancer cells do not multiply.

Irradiation can also be "healing" at an early stage of endometrial cancer and an alternative to surgery. Often radiotherapy is recommended in addition to surgery. For example, to reduce soreness at other places in the body, including pain.

Hormone Treatments
Normal cells in the endometrium are under the influence of female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone. Sometimes progesterone slows the growth of cancer cells. Progesterone therapy/hormone therapy is often considered when the uterine cancer is sown to other places in the body.

Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment involving (chemical) agents that kill cancer cells or make sure they do not multiply. See the separate folder called 'Chemotherapy' for more details. Chemotherapy is not used by default in endometrial carcinoma but is sometimes given. Mostly as adjuvant (besides) radiation and/or surgery.

What is the forecast? 

There is a good chance of cure if endometrial cancer is diagnosed and treated at an early stage, even if the cancer is limited to the uterus and has not sown. Due to the abnormal (postmenopausal) blood loss, uterine cancer is often discovered early.

The treatment of cancer is constantly under development and research. New treatments are further developed and the information above is very common. Your specialist can provide you with more information about your prognosis and the best way of dealing.

Prognosis

The outlook for uterine cancer is very favorable in comparison to other cancers. This is mainly because, in 85 prognosis of cases, the tumor is detected in the initial stage. After 5 years, 80-90 percent of patients are still alive. Less than a third of patients die of this disease if the tumor grows slowly.

The prognosis becomes a lot worse when the disease only comes to light at a late stage. The five-year survival of uterine cancer in Stages III and IV is only 5-10 percent.

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References :

1. National Cancer Institute
2. Mayo Clinic
3. American Cancer Society