How to Explain Endometrial Cancer to Newly Diagnosed Patients

How to Explain Endometrial Cancer to Newly Diagnosed Patients

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How can experts explain endometrial cancer diagnosis to patients? Dr. Ebony Hoskins shares how she explains the diagnosis to newly diagnosed patients and provides advice for questions to ask your doctor.

Dr. Ebony Hoskins is a board-certified gynecologic oncologist at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and assistant professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at Georgetown University Medical Center.

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Transcript:

Mikki:

What is endometrial cancer? How do you explain endometrial cancer to newly diagnosed patients?

Dr. Ebony Hoskins:

Great question. So endometrial cancer is a cancer of the lining of the uterus, and the way I typically describe it is the same location where a woman would have menses, and it’s abnormal growth of the same lining. That’s the reason why there is typically abnormal bleeding, either in a postmenopausal woman or a woman who may have not gone through menopause, could have abnormal bleeding.

Mikki:

Awesome. And with that, I know when I had endometrial cancer, and that was just totally new to me. I really didn’t know a lot of people with cancer, I had never heard of endometrial cancer. What are some of the things that I should have asked?

Dr. Ebony Hoskins:

I think asking what is endometrial cancer? Where is the endometrium? I think those are very good questions to ask, especially if you’ve never heard of it, I think anytime there’s something you don’t understand that you should feel free to ask a question and feel comfortable with asking what you may not know.


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