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Just diagnosed with Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma: What to expect?
Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Dec 12, 2022 | Replies (239)Comment receiving replies
Hello @ejrdevries Thank you for sharing your journey through endometrial cancer. I'm happy to know that your gynecologist referred you to GYN/ONC. My gynecologist did the same right away. Your journey provides hope for all of us, including myself (recently diagnosed with recurrent endometrial cancer). Like you I was presented with a cancer survivorship plan. My plan included recommended visits every 6 months (my cancer was Stage 1a with no evidence in lymph nodes) and I went back for visits as I was supposed to. It was at a recent visit when the recurrent cancer was discovered. I'm starting radiation on December 6 (25 days) followed by 3 brachytherapy visits (internal radiation). After that I will go back every 3 months in my new and then longer periods of time if no other cancer is diagnosed. You are 14 years out from your original diagnosis with no evidence of cancer. This is wonderful news. This gives me and I hope others who visit Mayo Connect hope that treatment does work.
If I may ask how old were you when you first diagnosed in 2007 and how is your life now?
Blessings to you and yours as we approach Thanksgiving.
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I was 67 when first diagnosed and am now 81. My cancer was Stage3c2 and grade 3 tumor, about the worst. I had an excellent gyn/onc, very thorough, and very supportive. I did not hide myself, I went to deep water aerobics three times a week, missing only the week of chemo. I did not have any nausea thanks to many meds. Five meds by infusion before the actual chem and four more to take every 6 hours for the three days following. I never had a cough or sniffle throughout the treatment. I am truly blessed. I do have neuropathy in both sensory and motor nerves and have used a walker for most of the 14 years. We have traveled and I have seen grandchildren grow up, graduate from universities and make their way in life. I still do those water aerobics, lead a Bible study, go to church, make hand stitched quilts.