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Health
Keira Jenkins

Doctors urge early checks as endometrial cancer on rise

The number of diagnosed cases of endometrial cancer has doubled in two decades. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS)

Doctors at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane, where about 200 women are treated for endometrial cancer each year, say they're alarmed at the rise in the disease. 

More than 3000 cases of endometrial cancer were diagnosed in Australia last year, double the number recorded 20 years ago. 

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