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What Are the Treatments for Uterine Cancer?

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What Are the Treatments for Uterine Cancer?

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Treatments for uterine cancer include surgery, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, and chemotherapy. Surgery is the most common treatment for women with uterine cancer. Your doctor will likely take out your uterus and will usually take out the fallopian tubes, ovaries, and nearby lymph nodes. How much is removed depends on the size of the tumor, what the cancer cells look like, and how the cancer has spread. Radiation is another way to treat uterine cancer. For this treatment, X-rays kill cancer cells. If the woman has early-stage uterine cancer, radiation may be used instead of surgery. It is more often used after surgery to kill any cancer cells that may have been left behind. Hormone therapy is when drugs are used to keep cells from getting the hormones they need to grow. The drugs are given by mouth or by injection. They travel through the body in the blood. The drugs control the cancer cells that are both inside and outside the uterus. Hormone therapy may be used to be sure that c

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