How to treat endometrial cancer? It can be treated in these seven ways

Endometrial cancer is very harmful, so it is important to pay attention to timely treatment. It can be treated through surgery, combined surgery and radiation therapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, anti-estrogen drugs, anti-cancer Chinese medicine treatment, etc. You must actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment and not take medicine indiscriminately. You must also do a good job of nursing during treatment to better promote your body's recovery as soon as possible.

In life, many female friends are afraid of the occurrence of endometrial cancer, because once endometrial cancer occurs, it will seriously endanger the life and health of women. The endometrium is also a malignant tumor, so everyone must receive treatment in time. Let’s have a comprehensive understanding of how to treat endometrial cancer?
1. Surgery is the preferred method. Patients in stage I should undergo extrafascial hysterectomy and bilateral adnexectomy, while patients in stage II should undergo extensive hysterectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection.
2. Combined surgery and radiation therapy
Patients in stage I should receive external irradiation after surgery if cancer cells are found in the ascites or the muscularis propria is infiltrated, or if there is lymph node metastasis. Patients in stage II or some stage III should receive external irradiation or intracavitary irradiation before surgery, and surgery should be performed 1 to 2 weeks after the end of radiotherapy.
3. Radiotherapy <br/>The elderly, frail patients, patients with severe medical complications who cannot tolerate surgery, and patients in stage III or above who are not suitable for surgery can receive radiotherapy, including intracavitary and external irradiation.
4. Hormone therapy <br/>Young patients who want to retain their fertility, patients with advanced cancer who cannot undergo surgery or with cancer recurrence can be treated with large doses of synthetic progesterone, such as medroxyprogesterone acetate, intramuscular injection, 2 to 3 times a week; progesterone acetate, intramuscular injection, 2 to 3 times a week, etc.
5. Anti-estrogen drugs <br/>Tamoxifen, the indications are the same as progestin therapy, it is taken orally and can be used for a long time or in divided courses.
6. Anti-cancer chemotherapy <br/>For advanced cases that cannot be treated with surgery or radiotherapy, or for cases that relapse after treatment, combined chemotherapy such as 5-fluorouracil (5-Fu), cyclophosphamide (CTX), mitomycin (MMC), doxorubicin (BDR), and cisplatin (DDP) can be used, which has a certain effect.
7. Anti-cancer Chinese medicine treatment <br/>Can be used as one of the comprehensive treatment measures. It is suitable for some patients who are not suitable for surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or postoperative recurrence. It can control metastasis, relieve cancer pain, improve symptoms, improve quality of life, and prolong cancer survival.