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SOURCES: 2010 Medical Reference from Medstar Television.Setsuko Chambers, MD, Gynecologist, Director of Women’s Cancers, Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson.Wenxin Zheng, MD, Researcher, University of Arizona, Tucson.

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Learning you have breast cancer can be devastating. But what if months later you're told you also have the precursor to endometrial cancer? It happened to Janine Spencer.

Janine Spencer :

I was really devastated. I just felt like I went through all this, it was successful and I thought I was done.

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Janine is thankful it was caught so early; the endometrial cancer didn't have a chance to form.

Janine Spencer:

I'm all done with that and doing fine.

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Evidence suggests there's a link between breast cancer and an aggressive type of endometrial cancer.

Setsuko Chambers, M.D. :

It was particularly strong when the women had the breast cancer when they were young, before the age of 55.

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Doctor Wenxin Zheng (Win-shing ZEN) and his team made the connection after looking over more than a thousand patient medical records.

Wenxin Zheng, M.D.:

Any woman with breast cancer history should pay attention uh to this possibility of highly aggressive endometrial cancer.

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Endometrial cancer isn't detected through a routine pap. It forms on the inside lining of the uterus and most patients don't even know they have it.

Wenxin Zheng, M.D.:

When they come to the clinic uh most of these patients they are in an advanced stage. That's why they have very poor prognosis.

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The team hopes their findings will change all that, just like it did for Janine.

Janine Spencer:

Don't feel it's a death sentence. There is so much that can be done nowadays.

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Researchers are now looking for the markers that will make detecting endometrial cancer easier. For WebMD, I’m Sandee Lamotte.

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