A 58-year-old woman mistook her womb cancer symptoms for menopause until her stomach became swollen. Diagnosed with ...

Reproductive tract problems—Uterine fibroids and polyps (growths) or infections are common causes of abnormal bleeding. Precancer or cancer in the uterus, cervix (opening of the uterus), or ...

Menstruation is the condition of normal vaginal bleeding that happens during a woman’s monthly cycle. When pregnancy does not occur, the uterus sheds its lining triggered by falling progesterone ...

Medically reviewed by Alicen Nelson MD, MPH The navel, also known as the belly button or umbilicus, is a small, round, or ...

Researchers have found that fewer sessions of higher dose vaginal cuff brachytherapy work just as well as more frequent, lower-dose treatments for endometrial cancer patients.

Drs Ursula A. Matulonis and Eloise Chapman-Davis discuss overcoming health disparities in endometrial cancer and increasing clinical trial enrollment of Black women.

The high prevalence of sarcopenia in patients with ovarian and endometrial cancers underscores the importance of early ...

Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most common gynecological malignancy in developed countries, with its incidence steadily rising worldwide due to increasing ...

How common is endometrial cancer? In the United States, cancer of the endometrium (the lining of the uterus) is the most common cancer of the female reproductive organs. The American Cancer Society ...

Fibroid degeneration occurs when a uterine fibroid outgrows its limited blood supply and begins to die. Fibroids are benign uterine growths made of smooth muscle cells and fibrous tissue. Some people ...

Patients with either a negative first colonoscopy or a hyperplastic polyp should be offered screening at five year intervals. At present, controlled trials investigating the optimal frequency of ...