Symptoms of late-stage endometrial cancer

What are the symptoms of late-stage endometrial cancer? With the development of society, the incidence of endometrial cancer is getting higher and higher. Many people are diagnosed with endometrial cancer only in the late stages. In fact, female friends should understand the symptoms of late-stage endometrial cancer, which plays an important role in preventing the occurrence of cancer.

Cancer gynecologists point out that many patients are difficult to be diagnosed in the early stage, and usually they are in the middle and late stages when they seek medical treatment. They hope that female friends will not panic when they have symptoms related to endometrial cancer, and should receive correct and active treatment. Malignant tumors originating from endometrial glands are also called uterine body cancer, and most of them are adenocarcinomas. It is one of the three major malignant tumors of the female genitals. The high-incidence age is 58-61 years old, accounting for about 7% of the total number of female cancers and 20-30% of reproductive tract malignant tumors. The incidence rate has been on the rise in recent years.

Symptom 1. Long-term continuous estrogen stimulation of the endometrium without progesterone antagonism may cause endometrial hyperplasia and cancer. There may also be late symptoms of endometrial cancer. Due to systemic factors, endometrial cancer is prone to occur in obese, hypertensive, diabetic, infertile or sterile and menopausal women. Due to genetic factors, about 20% of endometrial cancer patients have a family history.

Symptom 2: The patient can touch the enlarged uterus and/or adjacent tissues and organs in the lower abdomen, which may cause swelling and pain in the lower limb on that side, or compress the ureter to cause hydronephrosis or renal atrophy on that side, or symptoms of systemic failure such as anemia, weight loss, fever, cachexia, etc. Endometrial cancer occurs at a relatively late age, and it seems unlikely to be complicated by pregnancy, but there have been individual cases of complicated pregnancy or tubal pregnancy reported in the literature.

Symptom 3: The symptoms of late-stage endometrial cancer are more obvious and severe than those of early-stage endometrial cancer, such as obvious bleeding, heavy bleeding and long duration. Endometrial cancer is a common gynecological malignancy, also known as uterine body cancer, and its incidence rate is second only to cervical cancer. The true cause of endometrial cancer is still not very clear, but it is related to obesity, diabetes, hypertension, etc. The symptoms of late-stage endometrial cancer include irregular vaginal bleeding and increased vaginal discharge. Adenocarcinoma grows in the uterine cavity and has relatively few chances of infection. At first, there may be a small amount of bloody leucorrhea, but as the tumor grows, the tumor stimulates infection and necrosis, and the endometrial cancer tissue falls off, resulting in increased secretions with a foul odor, and sometimes the discharge is mixed with small fragments of cancer tissue.