Uterine cancer, also known as endometrial cancer, is the fourth most common cancer in women and the most common gynecologic cancer. 66,000 US women that are expected to be diagnosed in 2023. Over the last fifteen years, while rates for colon, lung and other cancers have decreased, rates for uterine cancer have increased.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:
RISK FACTORSfor uterine cancer
Why women who have obesity are at increased risk
Why young women with PCOS are at increased risk
Why perimenopausal women are at increased risk
Why compounded hormone therapy and pellets increase risk
Other risk factors that are not as well known
Why Black women are twice as likely to die from uterine cancer
Steps you can take to reduce your risk
The #1 sign that you might have uterine cancer or pre-cancer
What to know if you have been diagnosed with hyperplasia
What to know if you have been diagnosed with uterine cancer
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr. Radio, Nightline, Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine, and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine.