Is a lump a symptom of endometrial cancer?

Everyone feels sad when they hear the word cancer, because it is a disease that causes great harm to the human body. In severe cases, it can threaten the patient's life. It is also the most difficult disease to cure in the world. At the same time, many female friends suffer from endometrial cancer.

1. Vaginal bleeding is the main clinical symptom of endometrial cancer. It manifests as: (1) Postmenopausal vaginal bleeding: 70-75% of endometrial cancer patients are postmenopausal women, and more than 90% have vaginal bleeding. It manifests as continuous or intermittent vaginal bleeding, with varying amounts. Generally, the amount of bleeding is not much, and heavy bleeding is rare. There are also cases where heavy bleeding suddenly occurs several years after menopause.

(2) Perimenopausal vaginal bleeding: It manifests as irregular menstrual cycle, prolonged menstruation or increased menstrual flow, or irregular vaginal bleeding. About 20% of endometrial cancer patients are perimenopausal women. Another 5% are women under 40 years old.

2. Vaginal discharge

About 1/3 of patients have increased vaginal discharge, which manifests as serous or bloody secretions. When combined with intrauterine infection or pyometra, the discharge may be purulent or bloody, and sometimes have a foul odor.

3. Pain

Usually it does not cause pain. A small number of patients have lower abdominal pain, which is persistent pain or distending pain, which may be related to the large lesion protruding into the uterine cavity and stimulating uterine cavity contracture. The pain is more obvious when there is fluid accumulation or pus accumulation in the uterine cavity or when advanced cancer infiltrates surrounding tissues or compresses nerves. It manifests as persistent pain in the lower abdomen, lumbar sacral region and legs.

4. Systemic symptoms

Patients with endometrial cancer generally have obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. In the early stages of gynecological examinations, pelvic examinations are usually normal, but in the late stages, there may be signs of uterine enlargement, adnexal masses, anemia, weight loss, cachexia, and distant metastasis.

The characteristics of many female diseases are not very obvious, and gynecological diseases are easy to confuse, which brings great difficulties to diagnosis. The symptoms of endometrial cancer are relatively obvious. If women have related symptoms, they must pay attention to it and do the corresponding identification, diagnosis and treatment in advance.