Relapse endometrial cancer

I had external radiation and brachytherapy. I have terrible sharp abdominal pain in my groin that radiates to my back, feels like toothache. Oncologist did mri, Ct and pet scan all came back normal. Dr said to go to PT and have been seeing chiropractor it helps for a day and starts again.
No one seems to know what it is and I think that drs think that because I had scans that should be good. Does anyone else have these kind of pains. Maybe it’s scar tissue or it’s from the radiation .
No one ever answers those questions.

@jeanadair123 Is it possible that the pain is soft tissue (muscles)? Depending on what I’m doing I get groin pain that is sharp too. I went to a pelvic floor physical therapist who helped me figure out this was the internal obdurator muscle that was affected by having a hysterectomy and total left hip replacement within 3 months of each procedure. The pain has never really gone away however I now recognize the source and I have exercises to do for it.

Sure, it could be scar tissue too. What other explanations did the oncologist come up with since your scans were all negative (thank goodness!)?

I had external radiation and brachytherapy. I have terrible sharp abdominal pain in my groin that radiates to my back, feels like toothache. Oncologist did mri, Ct and pet scan all came back normal. Dr said to go to PT and have been seeing chiropractor it helps for a day and starts again.
No one seems to know what it is and I think that drs think that because I had scans that should be good. Does anyone else have these kind of pains. Maybe it’s scar tissue or it’s from the radiation .
No one ever answers those questions.

No systems just kept changing doctors until someone used a speculum and that is how they found it.

Hi jeanadair123, hope all is well with you. How did treatment go and were they able to do surgery again on the cuff or how do they treat it. Hope they took care of it to your satisfaction. God bless and good Luck!

I'm simply curious whether you had any symptoms that reappeared to suggest that the cancer had returned since nothing showed? Thank you very much for responding!!!

Same here endometrial cancer in 2009, recurrence 2016. Radiation and brachytherapy. Mine didn't show on the pet scan either although I think they missed it from the next drs notes. Had I not gone to 4 gynecologist oncologists I would probably be dead by now, no one wanted to use a speculum which one of the drs finally did and saw that it had returned in my vaginal cuff. I was told at the time of my surgery that they got all the cancer so no radiation was necessary. All one can do is be proactive but it is tiring. Hope all goes well for you I know how scary this is.

Thank you for posting. I just found out that my endometrial cancer has returned. I had stage 1A in May of this year 2020, radical hysterectomy. It didn’t show up in a scan I July or a PET a an in July. It just showed up in a scan last week, it is I my groin lymph node, 2 in my pelvis and 3 smaller masses in my pelvis. Meet the dr. In Jan.
Please post what is going on, I was hoping to find others who are going through the same thing.
Miriam

Hi Sweetie - 13 yrs ago I had squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal and had radiation for 1 hour every day over all the lower half of my body for 3 months and a chemo port for 244/7 chemo, also for the same time. Now the squamous cell carcinoma showed up in my uterus, then they said it went to the endrometrium lining, now it's cervical cancer. Going to have a radical hysterectomy and just get rid of all of it! It is an emotional roller coaster but you are in good hands and it sounds like it's in the beginning stages and they will just sap it out of there. Blessings to you sweetie, Gina