My mother had a ''cyst'' in 2003 and we tried to get her gynecologist to do a hysterectomy on her at that time. She was72 at the time. 3 years ago May she had a tumor the size of a nurf football and her abdomen was full of smaller cyst. LONG story short. She underwent a 7 hour surgery, since August 2005 been on one or another Chemo Therapy and now she is getting ready to have another 4 or 5 hour surgery to remove tumors from her liver and between her organs and back as well as her gallbladder. This has been a nightmare because doctors just don't seem to know what they are dealing with. Through all this there has never been a PT scan just to see where in the body cancer cells are with this type of cancer. Last year she was sent to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the treatment they recommended her oncologist wouldn't administer because he knew too many patients that had suffered far worse from that particular chemo treatment.The one thing we did learn however while at MD Anderson is that in 2003 the cyst that was removed was most likely this granuluso cell ovarian cancer and had she had her ovaries removed she wouldn't be where she is today. Don't take one doctor's word or advice, get more than one opinion if you can!