Thank you, Marie Murray, for your Upfront about endometrial cancer (September 10). It’s the same story I have told to many women in the 17 years since my cancer was diagnosed.
I also experienced break-through bleeding in my mid-to-late-50s and brought this to the attention of my doctor. Each time, I had a smear test that came back negative. So, I started tracking when these events occurred and established a pattern that showed bleeding occurred within a day or two of my being in close proximity to my infant grandchildren, or indeed any infant.
After having this theory dismissed by the doctor, I just settled into enjoying being some kind of “Earth mother” – until one night the bleeding got more serious. This time, the doctor finally decided to do Pipelle endometrial sampling.
The next day, I got my diagnosis – cancer, endometrial adenocarcinoma to be exact. By this time, it was Stage 2, and things moved swiftly from there. As with Marie, my treatment and care from then on were
