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This paper clarifies that while endometriosis shares similarities with cancer, such as ectopic lesions and immune evasion, it is a benign disease without genetic abnormalities that does not cause death.
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This chapter addresses the misconception that endometriosis increases cancer risk by comparing clinical and biological features of endometriosis lesions with cancer. It explains that endometriosis can mimic cancer in that lesions occur at distant sites, evade immune control, and can generate new blood vessels and involve organs such as the peritoneum, ovaries, posterior vaginal wall, digestive tract (notably rectum and sigmoid colon), bladder, and ureters. The chapter’s key caveat is that despite these shared characteristics, endometriosis is not a cancer: it is described as a benign disease that does not lead to death, does not involve accumulation of genetic abnormalities like tumors, and most lesions stop progressing and may evolve into fibrotic tissue over time even without treatment. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it focuses on dispelling the “endometriosis increases cancer risk” misconception by contrasting endometriosis biology with cancer.
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