Endometrial Cancer Treatment Options | Memorial Sloan Kettering

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07/17/23

Memorial Sloan Kettering experts discuss the different treatment options for women with endometrial cancer.

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What about therapy after surgery for uterine cancer? Is it still the same chemotherapy used in peritoneal chemotherapy in this case?

We have learned so much about endometrial cancer. We used to think it as one disease, but we have learned that even within a stage, and the cancer is confined only to the uterus and has not spread to the lymph nodes, there are differences in prognosis that depend on how the cancer looks underneath the microscope, which is called histology.

We are learning to understand in different molecular features that endometrial cancer. We are even learning to type endometrial cancers between those that we feel are more hormonally driven, Type 1 cancers, versus those that are not hormonally driven. They express different molecular markers and look a little different under the microscope.

With the help of a good expert pathologist, we try to decide what is the risk for this endometrial cancer.