ENDO Messages for July, 2000: Re: Abnormal pap showing benign endometrial cells

Re: Abnormal pap showing benign endometrial cells

From: Stacey (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Jul 11 19:38:19 2000

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Kim, You may want to post your concern to the Women's Health Forum on http://www.obgyn.net. There are Doctors there that can answer your question much better than I can, but here's a thought:

According to the American Association of Family Physicians, benign endometrial cells on a pap smear, expecially those that do not cause other symptoms (ie irregular bleeding) are nothing to worry about. The cases of endometrial cells on a pap smear that do cause problems, a D&C is usually called for. However, there has been a link between benign endometrial cells showing up on pap smears and endometrial cancer. This means that there's a higher percentage of people with benign endometrial cells who have endometrial cancer than the percentage of people in the general population who have cervical cancer. At least that's what this study says. So, in my opinion (which probably does not mean as much as the opinion of a Doctor, mind you :) you may or may not have a higher risk for cancer. Or, it could be absolutely nothing. Here's the link to a synopsis of that study:

http://www.aafp.org/afp/990115ap/tips.html

Good luck to you! I hope that this helps and I hope that everything is okay. Post again and let us know!!!

At Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Kim wrote: >
>My last pap test showed abnormal benign endometrial cells. I've just
>had a biopsy of the uterine lining and one for the cervix. In looking
>through this website, everyone seems to be in pain and/or to be having
>heavy bleeding. I'm not having any of these symptoms. I really don't
>know what the results of the pap test mean in terms of what could be
>wrong. Is there a list of what this could mean? Could this be just an
>inflammation or does this mean there's definitely something wrong, that
>may or may not be cancer? Even though the pap test results said "benign"
>cells, does this mean there could be cancer there? I'm pretty upset and
>hyper about this and won't get the results for two weeks. Would greatly
>appreciate anyone's input on my questions.

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Stacey-Michelle

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