How is endometrial cancer treated?

If endometrial cancer is found in it's early stages, a hysterectomy is the most common treatment option; if more advanced, radiation or chemotherapy may be necessary. Watch OB/GYN specialist Lauren Streicher, MD, describe these treatment options.

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Over 90% of women will have a five-year survival of a stage I cancer. [MUSIC PLAYING]
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The good news about endometrial cancer, in the majority of women, between 70% and 80% of women, it is found in its earliest stage, which means
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it's at its most curable stage. And in those cases, we're generally able to treat it surgically by doing a hysterectomy.
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And for the majority of women, especially if they're a stage I, that's going to cure them. A more advanced uterine cancer sometimes
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requires other treatments, either radiation or chemotherapy, depending on the type of cancer it is and how advanced it is.
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But this is a cancer that is very treatable. [AUDIO LOGO]

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