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• In menstruating women: vaginal bleeding between periods or unusually heavy or prolonged periods;
• In postmenopausal women: gynecological bleeding. In a postmenopausal woman who is bleeding, tests should always be done to check for possible endometrial cancer.

  Avertizare. Because this cancer sometimes starts during menopause, when menstruation is irregular, abnormal bleeding can be mistakenly considered normal.

• Abnormal vaginal discharge, white discharge, discharge like water, or even purulent discharge;
• Cramps or pain in the lower abdomen;
• Durere la urinare;
• Durere în timpul sexului.

Persoanele în pericol 

The main risk factors for endometrial cancer are:

• obezitatea,
• Diabet,
• Previous treatment with Tamoxifen,
• HNPCC / Lynch syndrome, an inherited disease associated with an increased risk of endometrial cancer. (Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer or Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer)

Other people are at risk:

• Femeile din postmenopause. As the rate of progesteron decreases after menopause, women over 50 are more at risk of endometrial cancer. Indeed, progesterone seems to have a protective effect on this type of cancer. When the disease occurs before menopause, it occurs mostly in women at high risk;
• Femei ale căror cycles started very young (before 12 years old);
• Women who have had a late menopause. The lining of their uterus has been exposed to estrogen over a longer period of time;

• Women having niciun copil are at higher risk of endometrial cancer compared to those who have had it;
• Femeile cu sindromul ovarului polichistic. This syndrome is characterized by a hormonal imbalance disrupting menstrual cycles and decreases fertility.
• Women with endometrial hyperplasia are at greater risk;
• Women with strong istorie de familie colon cancer in its inherited form (which is rather rare);
• Femeile cu tumora ovariană which increases the production of estrogen.
• Women taking certain menopause hormone treatments (HRT)