Postmenopausal women who consume two or more alcoholic drinks a day may double their risk of endometrial cancer, according to a new study published by Veronica Wendy Setiawan and colleagues at the University of Southern California. Endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of the female reproductive system and accounts for six percent of all cancers in women, according to the NCI.
According to Setiawan, previous studies have shown that alcohol consumption has been associated with higher estrogen levels in postmenopausal women, which could be the mechanism that increases the risk of endometrial cancer.
Women who have been diagnosed with Lynch Syndrome,
known also as hereditary nonpolylposis colorectal cancer, are%uFFFDprotected by not having%uFFFD a uterus and ovaries.
This procedure seems so invasive and harsh, but women with this syndrome face a severe threat of developing endometrial
cancer and ovarian cancer. Women without this syndrome have only 1% risk of developing these cancers of the reproductive
organs, where as women with Lynch Syndrome have about a 40-60 percent chance of developing endometrial cancer. None of
the women with Lynch Syndrome who had a hysterectomy, including removal of the ovaries, developed gynecological
cancers.
