On 2/15/2008 freeatlast wrote:
hang tight , keep your spirts up, think possitive,and good luck ,i hear boston is a great hospital too. i went to dartmouth when i found out i had ovarian cancer mine was at stage 2 i had adult granulosa cell tumor cancer, i had my surgery 6 months ago i will soon be going bk for my check up in a few weeks,i know its scarey ,its a rough road but u can do it. this is a wonderful site to get info from and tlk to others that have gone threw the same thing as ur about to go threw.did they say wht kind ur was as i think there are diffrent kinds of ovarian cancer, they reomved both of my overies my flopian tubes my appendix, and another spot of cancer htat was on my intestines, i had cancer in both overiesbut i am doing great now ,i am on arimdex now for 2 yrs i think and it will help me from getting breast cancer we hope as ovarian and breast cancer are related and my sister had breast cancer 3 months before i was told i had ovarian , good luck and my thoughts are with you
To answer your question, I don't know what "type" of ovarian cancer I have. Oncologist said it was advanced based on MRI's, etc. but doesn't know the true extent until he does an exploratory laparotomy. He will definitely do a complete histerectomy plus take out part of my intestine. There is something going on with the bowels as well, but, again, it's vague until the exploratory. Can't wait to see another specialist at Dana-Farber on thursday. Does anyone out there go to support groups? Thanks for your words of encouragement. I hope to do the same for others once I get a little experience under my belt (so to speak).