Cervical cancer in PJS

There is a rare cervical cancer associated with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, adenoma malignum of the uterine cervix or minimal deviation adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix.

Unlike most cervical cancers, it starts inside the cervix instead of on the outer lining.

It's hard to diagnose because of its location. PAP smears won't find it and a different type of biopsy is needed.

Women who've had AM/MDA report mucous or watery discharge, bleeding between periods, heavy bleeding, pain, hyperestrogenism and pain.

A list of article abstracts follows.

Please feel free to print and take to your doctor.

I am not a medical professional and am not diagnosing, treating or prescribing.

My best medical advice is to get the best medical advice!

Peutz-Jeghers syndrome and thyroid problems - benign and malignant

I first posted this to the PJS Online Support Group in May 2001 and updated it in 2014. There are two addenda - first is my correspondence with Dr. Stratakis of the NIH, the second from 2014 is a list of five abstracts about PJS & thyroid cancer. - healing wishes, Stephanie Dear PJS friends; This report is on the PJS/thyroid connection. For our newcomers, I've written several pieces on PJS from a patient's view. Some topics include: sex cord tumors, bowel preparations, a review of the article Very High Risk of Cancer in Familial PJS, (7) , etc. Please remember these pieces are not medical advice, but reviews of the literature that you can take to your doctor. Some of you may want to have your thyroids screened, others with thyroid troubles may be surprised by the PJS connection. This topic was introduced in 2000 by two group members, who both visited Dr. Stratakis at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Stratakis is an endocrinologist who works primarily on Carney Complex. His study (1) is open to people with PJS. One member wrote her thyroid tumors were found during her study participation. The other member wrote to us on September 4, 2000: "The doctor gave me a couple of his articles. His latest, from 'Frontiers in Bioscience', discusses the overlap between disorders associated with multiple tumors and pigmentation defects. Among the non- GI neoplasms associated with PJ, endocrine tumors including thyroid cancer and ovarian and Sertoli cell tumors are the most frequent. My surgeon at home was unaware of any thyroid association with PJ. When I needed bloodwork for my surgery in May, I asked to get my thyroid level checked. All came back normal. But, Dr. Stratakis told me that it is not sufficient to just get bloodwork. You also need a thyroid ultrasound. He said that there is an especially aggressive form of thyroid cancer associated with PJ." The full article from Frontiers in Bioscience is available online. (2)

Storytelling event - I speak about PJS and breast cancer

On Thursday, July 31, 2014 I participated in a storytelling event by and for people with cancer diagnoses and our carers.

The event was a collaboration between https://www.smartpatients.com/ and http://storycollider.org/ and included the stories of six folks with cancer. 

If you'd like to see and hear my story, it's at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnpA4CbmJxQ

 In it I speak about PJS and how it's affected my life and my breast cancer experience.

PJS on The Powerful Patient online radio show

Free podcast of 40-minute interview
Stephanie Sugars, PJS advocate, with Joyce Graff and Mike B. Lawing

Archived at:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/powerful-patient/2014/07/10/stephanie-sugars-and-the-pjs-community