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Subject: first CAT scan since finishing chemo 2 years ago
Date: 10/13/2007

I'm a bit freaked out because I am having my first CAT scan since I stopped chemo 2 years ago for treatment of STage IIIC Ovarian papillaryserous carcinoma.  My hair has finaly grown back to where it was before the whole ordeal, and being BRCA1 I have also gone thru a long reconsturction due to a prophylactic double mastectomy.  I feel great, feel back to my old self..steriod weight from chemo nearly gone, my feet still have nerve damage from Carboplatnin and Taxol, but at least a feel better.  But, I feel so good that I'm freaked out about the CAT scan....my doctor says I have to have it because my CA 125 wasn't elevated when I had cancer, and since it's not elevated now, at all, then we have to do the CAT to see if anything is brewing....

 Isn't it hard to feel so good - get thru the entire ordeal - love life - and then have to be put in a tube to sit and wait to see if you will just have to do it all over again...

Just sharing...regardless of any of this crap...live is just freakin wonderful!

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Subject: RE: first CAT scan since finishing chemo 2 years ago
Date: 10/14/2007

Hello there...

    my story is very similar.. i was i diagnosed with 3c ovarian in jan 07.

 i had 9 treatments and then surgery last month and 6 more treatments.

my first c scan is this week... 6 weeks after my surgery... I am also brac 1..............................i am nervous also.... but why did your doc wait so lon for scan for you?

Subject: RE: first CAT scan since finishing chemo 2 years ago
Date: 10/17/2007
Any results yet?  I am BRCA2.   Are either of you doing MRIs and digital mammograms?
Subject: RE: first CAT scan since finishing chemo 2 years ago
Date: 10/18/2007

 

On 10/17/2007 Lucymullis wrote:

Any results yet?  I am BRCA2.   Are either of you doing MRIs and digital mammograms?

hi lucy! how're u doing? still on avastin? was wondering how u schedule the mammo's & mri? every 6 months either one or the other?& ultrasound? harriet

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