Patients who want to preserve fertility may be treated with unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy if chemotherapy is to be employed.

Patients who wish to preserve fertility can be treated with unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy.

Treatment choices depend on your age, your desire to preserve fertility and the cause of the bleeding (dysfunctional or structural).

The ability to easily preserve fertility prior to cancer treatment can provide hope at the time of diagnosis for families later in life.

Prepubescent children have fewer options to preserve fertility than adults.

"There are options for treatment of early endometrial cancer that can preserve fertility; it doesn't always mean a hysterectomy," Dr. Brown says.

Ideally, the ovaries should be exposed to less than 3 Gy to preserve fertility.

Ovary sparing surgery may be done in women wishing to preserve fertility.

The choice of treatment will also depend on several patient factors including age, desire to preserve fertility, and medical condition.

Your age, overall health, quality of life, and desire to have children (preserve fertility) must also be considered.