Would any cancer in the uterus show up on an MRI?
Just wondering as I was diagnosed and had surgery for ovarian cancer in February. From around October my periods have been either non-existent or extremely light. Sometimes there has been the odd bleed in between the what should be the "normal cycle".
I had a normal period in January and one whilst I was in hospital in Feb - not as heavy as usual. Last month's was barely anything so April's was even worse. Now I've got random bleeding that's come 9 days before my next period is due.
The CNS knows about the issues (not the last couple of months as I haven't seen her) and she said she'd made a note and the gynae-oncologist would see it but there's no obvious causes for concern etc.
I had an MRI at the end of April and there's nothing reported on there that shows any concerns about the uterus - in fact according to my GP, it reports "no evidence of residual disease".
Is this just a coincidence / maybe stress related? Only the right ovary was removed - it's currently unstaged and believed to be only stage 1, but this can't be confirmed as the surgeon who removed the tumour didn't take other biopsies from other areas etc. It was an endometrioid ovarian adenocarcinoma which I know can also be in the uterus but, as I say, it doesn't appear as though anything has flagged up on the MRI which it presumably would if there were any cancer cells significant enough to be causing these issues?
Thank you
Hi Glass not full
I am sorry that you are still waiting for answers.
From my understand an MRI should pick up an issue but it would be a biopsy that would confirm if it was cancer or a benign condition.
In theory something very small could be missed although they would have looked very closely at your pelvic area when assessing the MRI.
Jane
