My mom was diagnosed with stage IV PPD on December 21, 2004. She started chem in January 2005, and continued with chemo every three weeks for one and a half years. She had her last chemo on June 22, 2006, and boy did we celebrate. We were blessed to have six months of her being pain free/symptom free. on December 21, 2006, exactly two years from the date of her first diagnosis, we were told that her cancer had come back with a vengence. It had spread to her liver. Her oncologist at MD Anderson was very optimistic, but it just was not meant to be. She had one more round of chemotherapy in early January 2007, went into the hospital two days later and finally came home on hospice February 20, 2007. She went to be with her Lord and Savior on February 25, 2007, with her family at her bedside.
This is such a devastating cancer. My mother had symptoms for awhile, but the doctors just did not connect the dots. She had had a complete hysterectomy at age 25, and they did not even think to do a CA-125, until my sister, who is a OB/GYN nurse, insisted that they do.
I do have to praise MD Anderson in Houston. We are not from Houston, and our local oncologist told her to go home in December 2004, and to wait, that there was nothing that they could do.
My prayers are with anyone who has to deal with PPC.