Endometrial Cancer

[livingwith]

Went through menopause at 52. One year later I had a “period”. Ok weird, but didn’t we all learn that menopause was ‘on and off”? I happened to have my annual GYN a week later. The pap showed some troubling cells, thankfully due to the “period” sloughing off some cancer cells and they could be seen on the slide. Biopsy came next (ouch!!) Then a D and C. No doubt - cancer.
OK - Hysterectomy in 2006. Cancer didn’t break through the uterus -...Read the full article

[NinaK]

Congrats to you! You are certainly an inspiration. I'm a Breast Cancer Survivor (5+years) and I was Stage 3 Inoperable so I know where you are coming from.

My sister had surgery on August 31 for Uterine Cancer and just last Friday, she was diagnosed as Stage 3 also. She had her hysterectomy and is having her CT Scan and some blood work for treatment options, I guess. I know she will start with radiation but we don't know yet what the course of treatment is.

Did you have an ostomy bag after surgery? I understand that they had to remove some of her cancer near the sigmoid colon but there is a possibility of that being reversed depending on how she does with treatment. Any info would be helpful...

Thanks!

Nina

[Fluvanna]

Re Colostomy bag. No, I didn' get that. My surgery was to remove the uterous and check the fluid. They wanted to do broad beam radiation across my abdome for the littl cells that migrated through the fallopian tubes, but i opted against that due to the damage to the organs. The chemo although dreadful and painful was successful in killing the little buggers. I get ct scans every 6 months to see if we can catch a recurrence early again and fight it again. It's an ongoing process. I'm sorry your sister's involved her bowels. But - better to get it out and be alive with a bag than 6 feet under. I used to think that I woudl never get an exteneration (all of the organs removed) but as time goes by, you realize that just living is the important thing. Until it gets to the point where you are miserable for a long period of time, then it might be time to consider letting go. Toni