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@naturegirl5
May I ask how you discovered you had a recurrence? Were there any symptoms?
I am constantly worrying about this despite knowing that everything was taken out via hysterectomy. I have regular 6 month checkups with my gyno (only had one post op so far) and the examination just seems to be a peek inside with some feeling with no samples taken. Should it be more?

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@janeincanada Two years after my initial diagnosis I had a cancer surveillance appointment. These were occurring every six months. At these appointments I had only a physical exam with a speculum and no imaging (CT) was part of these exams. My nurse practitioner found a little tiny polyp-like bump on the vaginal cuff that she could see through the speculum. I had already been told by my gyn-oncology surgeon that if there was recurrence it would most likely show up like this on the vaginal cuff during a physical exam. I had no symptoms at all. I felt really good at that point and so this threw me into anxiety and confusion. The polyp-like structure was sent to pathology and the result was that again this was endometroid adenocarcinoma. I then had a PET/MRI to see if there were signs of recurrence or new cancers anywhere else from my head all the way to my upper thighs. Nope. The PET/MRI was all clear.

So, because of the pathology report on the little polyp radiation therapy was recommended and i scheduled with radiation oncology.