Hello,
I am sorry to hear of your loss and hope you are doing well under the circumstances. My mother was diagnosed a two days ago with Primary Peritoneal Cancer. She was not feeling well and had a couple of MRI's which revealed a tumor. They initially thought it was a slow growing form of cancer but a few days later she started accumulating fluid outside of her lungs and had great difficulty breathing. The fluid was drained and it revealed cancer cells which were also confirmed at the same time with biopsy results. This form of ovarian cancer came as a surprise as she had a Hysterectomy thirty years ago unrelated to cancer. Untreated they said she would only have a few months. She started Chemo treatment yesterday with Taxol and Cytoplatin. We hope with the treatment she has a few more years of quality life & your posting gives me hope since your mom had five years.