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What is "Pseudo Cancer"?

Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: 5 days ago | Replies (11)

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@inquirer Thank you for sharing the information from your pathology report. @val64 is excellent at the technical information given her background and her own experiences. I find myself wondering what your first oncologist meant with “pseudo cancer”. I also find that to be a very odd comment to make to a patient. The only thing that comes to mind has to do with the serous endometrial carcinoma located in the intraepithelial cells. From what I read in an article published in Academic Pathology (it was an illustrative and educational case and still provided very helpful information) there was no mentioned of this diagnosis as “pseudo cancer”.

Educational Case: Serous endometrial intraepithelial carcinoma and endometrial cancer:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10123333/

I tend to go to the published peer-reviewed literature whenever possible and use Google Scholar (and not Google by itself).

With your surgery scheduled for Monday, June 9 (is that date correct?) I am hoping your surgical oncologist will have more information to share with you as your tissue will go to pathology.

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Thank you, Helen! I read the article. Can't say I understood all terminology, but it was remarkably similar to my situation. Did you understand from the article that some biopsies can be consistent with endometrial cancer, yet turn out to be a pre-cursor to cancer instead? If so, maybe that's what the oncologist is calling "pseudo cancer".

Oh! ...and yes! My hystorectomy is scheduled for Monday, 06/09/2025, but I'm not nearly as afraid of the surgery as I am chemo. That's what lead to me recalling and trying to research the comment about "pseudo cancer". If it is pseudo cancer, was trying to find out if chemo would still be required.