Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information: Menopause, Midlife, and More

S1 Ep57: Uterine Cancer: Reducing Your Risk


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Uterine cancer, also known as endometrial cancer, is the fourth most common cancer in women and the most common gynecologic cancer. 66,000  US women that are expected to be  diagnosed in 2023. Over the last fifteen years, while rates for colon, lung and other cancers have decreased, rates for uterine cancer have increased. 

In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:
  • RISK FACTORS for uterine cancer
  • Why women who have obesity are at increased risk 
  • Why young women with PCOS are at increased risk
  • Why perimenopausal women are at increased risk
  • Why compounded hormone therapy and pellets increase risk
  • Other risk factors that are not as well known
  • Why Black women are twice as likely to die from uterine cancer
  • Steps you can take to reduce your risk
  • The #1 sign that you might have uterine cancer or pre-cancer
  • What to know if you have been diagnosed with hyperplasia
  • What to know if you have been diagnosed with uterine cancer
  • For more information on this topic:
          Episode 40 Don’t Go with This Flow- Post Menopause Bleeding
         Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison
         Episode 31 The TRUTH About Hormone Therapy: Does it CAUSE or Does it          PREVENT Breast Cancer?
           Episode 52 Yes, You CAN Reduce Your Cancer Risk By 33% with Selene Yaeger

    Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat

    Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society. 

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    Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr. Radio, Nightline, Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine, and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine. 


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    Books by Lauren Streicher, MD

     Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain

    Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat

    Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever

    The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy





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