Uterine Sarcoma

Uterine sarcoma is cancerous growth of soft tissues of the uterus and is fairly rare. Only about 4% of all malignancies of the uterine body are uterine sarcomas (the rest is endometrial cancer). In classical medicine the cause of the lesion is not known, however, in the case of endometrial stromal sarcoma described on this page, astrologically, the cause of this particular uterine cancer is 5 years long transit to the natal Moon, in the house of surgery and terminal illnesses.

In general, you will be more susceptible to this rare type of uterine cancer if the following conditions are met:

-- you have already had a history of pelvic radiation;

-- if the menopause has already started;

-- if you were taking tamoxifen long-term.

The Signs and Symptoms of Uterine Sarcoma

-- Unusual or postmenopausal bleeding.

-- Pelvic pain, pressure, and unusual discharge.

-- A nonpregnant uterus that enlarges quickly.

Diagnosing Uterine Sarcoma

To diagnose uterine sarcoma, several procedures may be needed:

-- physical examination by your doctor,

-- medical imaging such as ultrasound, CAT scan, MRI,

-- tissue diagnosis by biopsy, hysteroscopy, or D&C.

Please note that Pap smear is a screening test for cervical cancer, not for detection of uterine sarcoma.

Staging

Uterine sarcoma is staged like endometrial carcinoma at time of surgery, using the FIGO cancer staging system.

Stage IA

tumor is limited to the endometrium.

Stage IB

invasion of less than half the myometrium.

Stage IC

invasion of more than half the myometrium.

Stage IIA

endocervical glandular involvement only.

Stage IIB

cervical stromal invasion.

Stage IIIA

tumor invades serosa or adnexa, or malignant peritoneal cytology.

Stage IIIB

vaginal metastasis.

Stage IIIC

metastasis to pelvic or para-aortic lymph nodes.

Stage IVA

invasion of the bladder or bowel.

Stage IVB

distant metastasis, including intraabdominal or inguinal lymph nodes.


Therapy for the Uterine Sarcoma

The following kinds of therapy are used in classical medicine, alone or in combination:

Surgery

if feasible, involving total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy.

Radiation therapy

using high-dose x-rays or other high-energy rays to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors.

Chemotherapy

using drugs to kill cancer cells.

Hormonal therapy



using female hormones to kill cancer cells.


The Astrological Case of Uterine Sarcoma

When this lady's husband first contacted me in September 2003, it was with the purpose of finding a suitable job perspective for him. For live delineations, I insist on having the charts of spouses, kids and other people that one lives with, since it sheds more light compared to the isolated natal chart.

I glanced at his wife's chart and she asked me what will happen within a year or two to her. Her chart was not rectified at that time, so the positions of the Sun, Moon, and Mars in the first decade of Pisces fell into her seventh house. Seeing the transit of Uranus during 2003-2006 over those planets, I just told her she would feel like "Alice in the Wonderland".

-- What do you mean by that!? she asked.

There was no time to answer that fully, and we parted. In June 2005 the phone rang again and it was her husband:

-- My wife has had hysterectomy in May, and is fine now. She had cancer, a sarcoma of endometrium, which spread to the other parts of the body, and now the doctors would like to perform another surgery to clear the cancer cells from the liver. Can we meet?

Her mother never knew exactly when the labor finished, but thought it was around noon, with a possible error of a few hours on both sides. Now that I knew that she had surgery, I rectified the chart so that the Ascendant was on 29 Cancer instead of the previous mid-Leo. The stellium of Sun, Moon, and Mars then fell into the VIII house -- the house of surgery, mechanical injuries, terminal states, cancer... clearly aligning itself with the events in real life. Here is her rectified natal chart.

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