Post Date November, 17 2024
Endometrial cancer is a gynecological tumor and a serious disease. It is one of the three major malignant tumors of female genital organs. It not only affects the normal life of patients, but also seriously threatens the life safety of patients. We must find, check and treat it as soon as possible.
What are the symptoms of endometrial cancer
1. Irregular vaginal bleeding is the most common cause of abnormal menstruation. There is no cleaning at any time, and the amount of bleeding is small at the beginning. With the development of the disease, the amount of bleeding increases, but it is rare to have a large amount of bleeding. Patients without amenorrhea have increased menstruation, prolonged menstruation, more and less menstruation. Intermittent amenorrhea may have vaginal bleeding. Patients with irregular vaginal bleeding after amenorrhea in medicine are alert to the possibility of endometrial cancer.
2. The leucorrhea is abnormal. A few people will have an increase in leucorrhea. In the early stage, as in the case of light blood water, and in the late stage of infection, there may be a discharge of pus and blood, with a foul smell.
3. Pain. Generally, endometrial cancer does not cause pain, but in the late stage, it invades nearby organs and nerves, or because the tumor is large, it produces compression symptoms, which may cause pain in lower abdomen, waist, legs, feet and other parts.
4. In the late stage, emaciation, fever, general weakness, pallor, anemia and other phenomena may occur, which we call cachexia.
How is endometrial cancer caused
1. The long-term continuous stimulation of estrogen on endometrium is related to anovulatory dysfunctional uterine bleeding, polycystic ovarian syndrome, functional ovarian tumors, and long-term use of estrogen without progesterone antagonism after menopause.
2. Physical factors endometrial cancer is easy to occur in obesity, hypertension, diabetes, unmarried, less pregnant women. These factors are high risk factors for endometrial cancer.
3. About 20% of endometrial cancer patients with genetic factors have a family history. The close relatives of patients with endometrial cancer are 2 times higher than those with cervical cancer.
4. Too much fat in obesity will increase the storage of estrogen, and the increase of androstenedione in plasma will turn into estrone. This increase in free active estrone may be a carcinogen or pro-cancer factor of endometrial cancer.
How to detect endometrial cancer early
In fact, endometrial cancer has many symptoms, but it is often ignored. It is found that the disease is not timely and the treatment is delayed.
Its initial manifestations are irregular menstruation before and after amenorrhea, irregular bleeding after menstruation, vaginal discharge (the discharge symptoms are similar to those of bleeding, and there is purulent discharge and stench in combination with infection), abdominal pain (when cancer accumulates in the internal mouth of the cervix, there is pus, lower abdominal distension and spasmodic pain in the uterine cavity, and the late stage infiltrates the surrounding tissues or compresses the nerves, causing pain in the lower abdomen and lumbosacral region), and anemia (the late stage has symptoms of emaciation and cachexia).
