Oh crap, I fought with Endometriosis, as well as metastatic Ovarian & Uterine Cancers. Earlier this year I found out the drug they gave me to treat my Endometriosis (Danazol - synthetic progesterine) was likely to have increased my chances of developing Ovarian Cancer. Combined, the presence of Endometriosis & the somewhat dangerous drug therapy, the two may have been enough to seal my chances of developing the cancer...
Passages from new research written up in
www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php
...The researchers, led by Dr. Anna-Sofia Melin, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, examined data on 63,630 women who had endometriosis. They found that endometriosis was linked to a higher risk of developing certain types of tumor...
...Dr Melin said "It could be that defects in the immune system allow the endometriosis to grow and also might allow cancer cells to grow in different parts of the body. Maybe the treatment of endometriosis can influence cancer development. We do not know yet."..
The scientists found the endometriosis raised the risk of developing the following types of tumors:
-- Ovarian tumors - 37% greater risk
-- Endocrine tumors - 38% greater risk
-- Kidney tumors - 36% greater risk
-- Thyroid tumors - 33% greater risk
-- Brain tumors - 27% greater risk
-- Malignant melanoma - 23% greater risk
-- Breast cancer - 9% greater risk
Surprisingly, women with endometriosis seem to have a 29% lower risk of developing cervical cancer.
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