Disease: Endometrial Cancer Prevention

    What is prevention?

    Cancer prevention is action taken to lower the chance of getting cancer. By preventing cancer, the number of new cases of cancer in a group or population is lowered. Hopefully, this will lower the number of deaths caused by cancer.

    To prevent new cancers from starting, scientists look at risk factors and protective factors. Anything that increases your chance of developing cancer is called a cancer risk factor; anything that decreases your chance of developing cancer is called a cancer protective factor.

    Some risk factors for cancer can be avoided, but many cannot. For example, both smoking and inheriting certain genes are risk factors for some types of cancer, but only smoking can be avoided. Regular exercise and a healthy diet may be protective factors for some types of cancer. Avoiding risk factors and increasing protective factors may lower your risk but it does not mean that you will not get cancer.

    Different ways to prevent cancer are being studied, including:

    • Changing lifestyle or eating habits.
       
    • Avoiding things known to cause cancer.
       
    • Taking medicines to treat a precancerous condition or to keep cancer from starting.

    Endometrial cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the endometrium.

    The endometrium is the lining of the uterus. The uterus is part of the female reproductive system. It is a hollow, pear-shaped, muscular organ in the pelvis, where a fetus grows. 

    Cancer of the endometrium is different from cancer of the muscle of the uterus, which is called sarcoma of the uterus.

    Endometrial cancer is the most common invasive cancer of the female reproductive system.

    Endometrial cancer usually occurs in women after menopause, and affects more white women than black women. Black women diagnosed with endometrial cancer are more likely to have more advanced disease at diagnosis, and are more likely to die from endometrial cancer than white women.

    Source: http://www.rxlist.com

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