Dosage of megace for endometrial cancer stage 1 what are you taking? Please reply!!!

Faith21

Dosage of megace for endometrial cancer stage 1 what are you taking?

Dosage of megace after diagnosis of endo carcinoma stage 1

Hey all,
I'm new to this forum have ben reading a lot but this is my first post.I had my first IUI 02/28/12 I found I was pregnant and then miscarried.they found a polyp on hysterosonogram.I had a hysteroscopy with polypectomy on 03/26/12 and they found endometrial carcinoma stage 1.04/27/12 was my first D&C and they put me on megace 160mg/ day for 3 months...another gynonc I saw wanted to put me on 320 mg....I don't want an hysterectomy at this time,want to do an IVF at some point.....anyone else in same boat taking megace with stage 1? What dosage?
Please share what dosage u took n how long and its results? Advantages & disadv of using 160vs 320 mg?

crystalblue1208

Megace didn't work for my sister
Hi Faith21,

I am not a health professional so I can't give you any advice on how much megace you should take but share my sister's story with you.

Last April my sister had a polyp removed but later the doctor found she had grade 1 endometrial carcinoma. She then started 9 month megace + IUD (only the last 3 months)but it didn't work for her and her cancer cell became grade 3 from the result of her last D&C. She then had her uterus removed 8 weeks ago and was staged grade 3/1A right after the surgery but just couple days ago the doctor found the cancer has spread to her lung/liver/pelvic and now she is staged grade 3/stage4B. We don't know why the cancer changed from grade1/stage 1 to grade 3/stage4B within 12 months. It's devastating as we're still coping with this horrible news.

cha_mars

https://csn.cancer.org/discussion/comment/1225394#Comment_1225394

How is your sister now? Sorry to hear that