Internally Peer Reviewed My medical school classmate's letter told me her daughter had uterine cancer. Ultrasound or CT scanning will determine the extent of the disease. Uterine cancer is the fourth most common women's malignancy. The uterus is upside-down pear shaped and lies between the bladder and rectum. The peak age for endometrial cancer is the late 50s and early 60s, but cases can occur at any age.
Endometrial cancer occurs more often in patients with increased female hormone.
Estrogen is raised in obese women because fat cells change an estrogen building block to estrogen. The more fat cells the more estrogen. This cancer is increased in women with long-term estrogen treatment without the balancing progesterone. Women who have failed to ovulate and women who have had few or no children are more susceptible. Birth control pills lower the risk by half.