What are the treatment outcomes for papillary serous carcinoma endometrial?!
Question: Try to give information in lay terms, not for professionals.
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From what I have found. The 5 year survivability rates are 36% for all stages.
What staging means is that as the cancer grows it's cells change. This change can be seen through a microscope and this is where a pathologist gives it a stage. A stage tells you how are along the growth has taken place. It is a poor indicator of severity for treatment of medical condition. A TMN (Tumor, Malignancy, Lymph node) grading scale is better for virtually all kinds of cancer.
The information I have found states that there is a 36% chance you will live for another 5 years despite how far along the cancer cells have matured. This source is not a definitive or recognized medical text and should not be the main source of your information, but it's the best I could find.
A better source talks about adjuvant therapy: "however, a review of the literature indicates that radiotherapy results in a 55% survival rate of only 55%, with follow-up ranging from 3 to 9 months [21-26]." so little more than 1/4 succed.
Your doctor will be the best source of information. If you don’t trust his opinion I suggest finding another equally qualified doctor to get a second opinion. Hope this helps.
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From what I could find from PubMed, The 5 year survival rate was 55% for that one. Not the best odds. Endometrial Cancer is the most comon uterine cancer and this particular one is more harmful.
I would get ready for some tough choices ahead of you or your loved one.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16495918&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum
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