When Margie Wilson was diagnosed with endometrial cancer in 2016 after she experienced unexplained bleeding, she knew nothing about cancer. She didn’t even know what an oncologist does. A decade later ...

Although it is known that obesity increases the risk of endometrial cancer and is linked to higher mortality rates in the general population, the association between obesity and mortality among ...

What Is Recurrent Endometrial Cancer? Endometrial cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the lining of the uterus, called the endometrium. It's the most common form of gynecologic cancer in the ...

What Is an Endometrial Biopsy? An endometrial biopsy is a quick and safe procedure that usually happens in your doctor’s office. During the biopsy, your doctor removes a small piece of tissue from the ...

Hysterectomy rates can be expected to rise slowly in the months and years following endometrial ablation, regardless of ablation device type, a meta-analysis found. Risk of hysterectomy rose to from 4 ...

Endometrial hyperplasia is a condition that causes the uterine lining to become thicker due to an excess of the hormone estrogen without progesterone. It can cause irregular menstrual bleeding. Cystic ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

Endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) is a rare, malignant tumor that forms in the uterine lining. Doctors most commonly diagnose it in people in the perimenopause stage. ESS is a subtype of a rare form ...

A new study finds that birth control pills have prevented 400,000 cases of endometrial cancer, which develops in the lining of the uterus, over the past 50 years. About half of those cancers were ...

An endometrial polyp is an overgrowth of the endometrial lining on the inside of the uterine cavity, most often found in women between 20 and 40 years of age. It contains no muscular tissue unlike a ...