Ask the Expert: Endometrial Cancer
Shawana Moore, DNP, MSN, CRNP, WHNP-BC, answers questions about endometrial cancer, signs and symptoms, and risk reduction.
Shawana Moore, DNP, MSN, CRNP, WHNP-BC, answers questions about endometrial cancer, signs and symptoms, and risk reduction.
How to tell the difference about these conditions with similar symptoms and what to do about it either way
It can take years for women to get diagnosed. Learn about the condition to get the help you need.
My symptoms were ignored for more than a year despite having a personal and family history of cancer
Ignoraron mis síntomas durante más de un año a pesar de tener antecedentes personales y familiares de cáncer
Fluctuating hormones and higher levels of estrogen increase the risk for this common disease
Las fluctuaciones hormonales y el incremento en los niveles de estrogenos
My bleeding was heavy and constant, but doctors just chalked it up to hormones and threw me on birth control
Delayed diagnoses, more aggressive tumor types and other healthcare disparities place Black women at a greater risk of dying from endometrial cancer compared to white women
I knew Lynch syndrome increased our family’s risk of colorectal cancer. I didn’t know it could be just as likely to cause endometrial cancer.
Learn the signs and symptoms of the most common gynecological cancer
Empower yourself to better understand endometrial cancer
Prepárate para que comprendas de mejor forma el cáncer endometrial
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