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Recurrence
Discuss issues related to recurrence.
PET or CT?
- By Milashka · New reply October 26, 2009
- 10 replies
- After 4 years in remission (measured from the day of surgery, per my gyn/onc) my CA 125 is slowly rising. My normal range was 9-13, since January it has gone 11-14-16-26 at three months intervals. Since ...
Rising CA-125
- By Milashka · New reply October 25, 2009
- 7 replies
- I am 4 years post-op/post treatment now (OvCa 3C dx Nov 05) and my tumor marker has always been in the 9-13 range during these years. In January it was 11, April it was 14, July it was 16 and just now ...
Lymph nodes?
- By Patricia123 · New reply October 23, 2009
- 5 replies
- I have a red thing, it looks like a "boil" under my arm, right under the skin, just came up today. Did anyone have a node under the arm start this way. If I didn't have OVCA I would think it was an infection ...
So scared about possible recurrence - please help
- By agg22 · New reply October 23, 2009
- 13 replies
- Hi, my mom was diagnosed as stage IIIC in February and had optimal debulking. She finished IP/IV chemo at the end of June. Two weeks ago she was hospitalized for a bowel obstruction - her gyn onc looked ...
Shoppingkharma..where are you?
- By Stoogemom · New reply October 21, 2009
- 9 replies
- Has anyone heard from shoppingkharma? Her last post was in September. Just worried about her! Stoogemom ...
Stem cells transplant anyone?
- By blacksea_turtle · New reply October 17, 2009
- 19 replies
- Hi to all ladies of sTeal! The cancer is back. The biopsy confirmed a recurrence in two lymph nodes behind the peritoneum. I had 7 months of cancer free time and this is my first recurrence. My CA125 ...
CA-125 on the rise
- By Jennifer88 · New reply October 16, 2009
- 15 replies
- Hello! This is my first post and I am pretty new to ovarian cancer. My Mom was diagnosed in January with Stage 3C ovarian cancer. She had optimal debulking surgery and then had 6 rounds of IP and IV chemo ...
Not the best news....
- By koh847 · New reply October 15, 2009
- 23 replies
- Hi...I ended up having the lump in my side biopsied today and it showed ovca cells. I guess I move on from here to chemo, we'll see. What a rollercoaster this last week has been. My surgeon is now 0/2 ...
Angry and Desperate
- By Sally-i · New reply October 15, 2009
- 4 replies
- Shall apologise before i carry on - my emotions are all over the place and i feel pretty desperate. Well an update on my gangliolioma and ca125. I managed to get through to Neurosurgeons secretary today ...
Update CA-125 Is 28,000
- By ladyjogger31 · New reply October 14, 2009
- 13 replies
- Well I got back from my vacation last Sunday with having to have 5 ¼ liters of ascites drained. Prior to vacation I had 18 treatments of radiation for a tumor on my vaginal cuff. My pet/ct scan was cancelled ...
Hexalen anyone?
- By quacker · New reply October 14, 2009
- 8 replies
- Just got the results of my latest PET scan, and after the third course of chemo, am still not in remission (stage IV at diagnosis), but there is improvement. My cancer is now resistant to platinum, taxol ...
Next step for Clear Cell??
- By koh847 · New reply October 14, 2009
- 1 reply
- Hi...has anyone had good luck with chemo for recurrent clear cell? Seems some are on Doxil and others avastin and something else. Can you please let me know which drugs, how the choice was made and how ...
Tamoxifen for Ovarian Cancer?
- By shoppingkharma · New reply October 13, 2009
- 12 replies
- Dear All, Many of you know my story; I am a 6 and half year survivor (11/15/02) who did get 3 and half years of remission. Mine returned April 2006. I have been on Carbo, Taxol, and Gemzar my first 10 ...
Has Anyone been on Doxil?
- By Conners · New reply October 13, 2009
- 14 replies
- Has anyone been on Doxil? What were your side effects or problems? Has it helped you. I have a 7cm. tumor pressing on my colon. I had two cycles of Carbo/Taxol that did not work. My Ca 125 went from 47 ...
Help!
- By Sally-i · New reply October 12, 2009
- 6 replies
- Hi there this is the first time i have posted on here having only found the site a week ago. I was diagnosed with stage 111C OC in 1992 and have been very lucky to have stayed in remission until recently ...
It's back
- By pegart · New reply October 10, 2009
- 5 replies
- I did a post yesterday, but somehow it never showed up. I just got back from the watercolor convention and my husband went on his hunting trip. Well, I saw the Dr. yesterday and my scan showed two small ...
Loss of a friend with Ovarian Cancer
- By Gia · New reply October 9, 2009
- 15 replies
- I just found out as I was going to bed that a friend I made at the Gyn cancer clinic died today. I last saw her about three weeks ago and she had told me the doctor had told her she had about 6 months ...
Recurrence on stage 1c???
- By Gabriele · New reply October 9, 2009
- 8 replies
- Has anyone had a recurrence after a stage 1c battle? During an annual physical, my regular doc found a "cyst" in my lower abdomen, right about where my uterus used to be. I am having a transvaginal ultrasound ...
Period lasting one day?
- By valarie_times · New reply October 8, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hi there I am post treatment. My last one was in July. I got my period back (i still have one ovary) and it was normal for the first month. it has only lasted one day this time and i am worried. Anyone ...
I do have a bowel Obstruction... Annejulia
- By annejulia · New reply October 4, 2009
- 6 replies
- For all of you that wrote to me about bowel obstruction I thank you so very much. I had an emergency stat catscan on Friday and it showed a partial bowel obstruction wrapping around the jejunum, the armlike ...
