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Newly Diagnosed: FIGO 2 Uterine Cancer: What does this mean?

Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Jun 2, 2023 | Replies (61)
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@gratefulcat

Hi Helen,

Thank you so much for this information - I really appreciate it. Would you mind sharing the stage of your cancer / if you have a positive pelvic washing and if they did any additional treatments after the surgery? How do you feel two years after the brachytherapy? I'm trying to decide if I should have the treatment now or "save" it.

They would like me to start brachytherapy at the end of April, and as your experience, they did an excellent job of educating me on what to expect.

Thank you again, and all the best to you.

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Helen, Volunteer Mentor | @naturegirl5 | Apr 1, 2023

@gratefulcat Hi again,
I was diagnosed Stage 1a, FIGO 1 with endometroid carcinoma in August, 2019. My pelvic washings were positive. My Mayo Clinic GYNOncologist said that positive pelvic washings do not change the stage as would have been the case several years ago. (Positive washings in the past would have modified my stage to Stage III). The recommendations had been updated from FIGO. "We" still do not know if the positive pelvic washings were involved with my recurrence that was diagnosed in November 2021. According to pathology at Mayo Clinic it is more likely that something could have been missed when the tissue was examined after my hysterectomy in 2019. After all, the lab samples the tissue and they do not examine every square centimeter and every cell.

I am now one year, 3 months post brachytherapy. I did not have any side effects right after the brachytherapy or now. I continue to follow the radiation oncologist's recommendation that I regularly use a vaginal moisturizer and a vaginal dilator. I have a partner and an active sex life. I would say that the hysterectomy itself by removing the cervix along with the uterus (and fallopian tubes and ovaries) has affected me more than the external and internal radiation therapy.

Do you have any other questions? What you thinking today about brachytherapy?

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