Womb (endometrial and uterine) cancer

This section tells you about womb cancer, which is also called cancer of the uterus or uterine cancer. It includes information about symptoms, causes and tests, treatment, living with womb cancer, current research, and life after womb cancer.

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News: Cervical smear tests 'could also detect ovarian and womb cancer': DNA from cervical screening samples could also be used to detect ovarian and womb (endometrial) cancers, according to pr...; 10 Jan 2013
Press release: First figures help set the standard for gynaecological cancer surgery: The first UK multicentre figures showing that one in five women having major gynaecological cancer surgery have some sor...; 5 Nov 2012
Press release: Womb cancer deaths rise by a fifth in the last decade: Deaths from womb (uterine) cancer have risen by nearly twenty per cent in the last decade, according to new figures from...; 5 Apr 2012

Is being inactive really ‘as bad as smoking’?: In July, top medical journal The Lancet published a series of articles looking the worldwide health problems caused by p…; 15 Aug 2012
Podcast: redefining breast cancer, tiny brain tumours, bowel cancer progress and more: This month, we hear how a landmark study could revolutionise breast cancer treatment, and take a look at the growing evi…; 30 Apr 2012
Healthy Resolutions 2012 – what’s new?: It’s mid-January, and while many resolutions will still be going strong, some may have already fallen by the wayside. Bu…; 23 Jan 2012

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