Endometrial Cancer – Dixie Carter Cause of Death

It is confirmed that the cause of death of actress Dixie Carter is Endometrial cancer. The 70-year-old Dixie Carter died last Saturday, April 10, from complications arising from endometrial cancer, a common type of uterine cancer.

Definition of endometrial cancer: Cancer that forms in the tissue lining the uterus (the small, hollow, pear-shaped organ in a woman’s pelvis in which a fetus develops). Most endometrial cancers are adenocarcinomas (cancers that begin in cells that make and release mucus and other fluids).

Estimated new cases and deaths from endometrial (uterine corpus) cancer in the United States in 2009:
New cases: 42,160
Deaths: 7,780