How long can you live after uterine cancer removal? Who are the high-risk groups for uterine cancer?

How long can you live after uterine cancer removal? Uterine cancer is a great threat to women's health. It is one of the common gynecological malignancies, more common in women aged 50 to 60, and often occurs after menopause. However, the incidence of uterine cancer has been increasing in recent years. Therefore, as long as it is found, it must be actively treated. So, how long can you live after uterine cancer removal?

The survival period after uterine cancer resection depends on the degree of metastasis of cancer cells, the degree of malignancy, and the recovery after surgery. These factors can affect the patient's survival rate. Uterine cancer is actually endometrial carcinoma, also known as uterine body cancer, which occurs in the endometrial epithelium and most of them are adenocarcinomas.

There are no obvious symptoms in the very early stage, but vaginal bleeding, vaginal discharge, pain, etc. may occur later. Vaginal bleeding mainly manifests as irregular menstrual cycles, intermenstrual bleeding, and postmenopausal vaginal bleeding, which is generally not much. Those who have not yet reached menopause may experience increased menstruation, prolonged menstruation, or menstrual disorders. If the cancer involves the uterine cavity, it may cause pyometra, lower abdominal distension and cramp-like pain.

In the late stage, infiltration of surrounding tissues or compression of nerves may cause pain in the lower abdomen and lumbar spine. In the late stage, corresponding symptoms such as anemia, weight loss and cachexia may occur. Gynecological examination of early endometrial cancer may not show any abnormalities. In the late stage, the uterus may be significantly enlarged, and there may be obvious tenderness when combined with uterine cavity pyometra. Occasionally, cancerous tissue may prolapse in the cervical canal, which is easy to bleed when touched. When the cancer infiltrates the surrounding tissues, the uterus is fixed or irregular nodules may be touched beside the uterus.

The main treatments for uterine cancer are surgery, radiotherapy, and drugs (chemotherapy and hormones). The appropriate treatment plan should be selected and formulated based on the patient's general condition, the extent of cancer involvement, and histological type. In the early stage, surgery is the main treatment, and adjuvant therapy is selected according to the results of surgical-pathological staging and the presence of high-risk factors for recurrence; in the late stage, a combination of surgery, radiation, and drugs is used.

Chemotherapy is one of the comprehensive treatment measures for advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer. It can also be used to treat patients with high risk factors for recurrence after surgery in order to reduce distant metastasis outside the pelvis. Chemotherapy can improve their prognosis. The combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy can better improve the prognosis of patients with advanced endometrial cancer than a single treatment method.