The standard treatment for endometrial cancer is a total hysterectomy with the removal of the uterus and ovaries, but this solution leaves a woman sterile. However, promising early findings show that an intrauterine device, or IUD, can halt and even reverse cancer growth by delivering progesterone-like hormones to the womb lining. The IUD, combined with monthly injections of gonadotropin-releasing hormone, may allow young women to delay hysterectomy long enough to have children. This process has already enabled nine women with very early womb cancer to have babies.
Contraceptive Could Delay Womb Cancer Progression
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