How do you get uterine cancer?
If you are concerned about getting uterine cancer, a good place to check out is the National Cancer Institute website, which lists causes and risk factors of the disease. Uterine cancer happens when cells mutate and grow out of control on the uterine lining, or endometrium (this is why the cancer is also referred to as endometrial cancer). Doctors are not exactly sure why this happens, but risk factors include:
*advanced age
*hormone replacement therapy using estrogen and not progesterone
*obesity
*tamoxifen, a hormone women take to treat or prevent breast cancer
*heredity
Again, all of these are just risk factors and sometimes women with all of these things don’t develop the cancer while those with none of them do. Factors I’ve seen emphasized frequently are estrogen and advanced age – most cases of uterine cancer occur in postmenopausal women. Still, getting uterine cancer remains somewhat unexplainable.
If you are concerned about getting uterine cancer, a good place to check out is the National Cancer Institute website, which lists causes and risk factors of the disease. Uterine cancer happens when cells mutate and grow out of control on the uterine lining, or endometrium (this is why the cancer is also referred to as endometrial cancer). Doctors are not exactly sure why this happens, but risk factors include:
*advanced age
*hormone replacement therapy using estrogen and not progesterone
*obesity
*tamoxifen, a hormone women take to treat or prevent breast cancer
*heredity
Again, all of these are just risk factors and sometimes women with all of these things don’t develop the cancer while those with none of them do. Factors I’ve seen emphasized frequently are estrogen and advanced age – most cases of uterine cancer occur in postmenopausal women. Still, getting uterine cancer remains somewhat unexplainable.
