PCOS and Ovarian cancer?
Everyone has a chance of getting ovarian cancer. Is yours a little higher because of family history, probably, but you are freaking yourself out and making everything else in your body worse of just by worrying and stressing about it. There is nothing you can do with that worry. Cysts can appear anywhere on your ovary, not just on your folicles. Cyst can in no way appear on eggs...your eggs are stuck inside your ovaries until that one special day a month when you ovulate. Ovaries hold the eggs. Cysts on the outside of your ovaries is a much better thing than on the inside. It is normal with PCOS to have cysts. Not all of them are goign to rupture or cause you any pain and hardly any of them will do permanent damage. You do not need to request a biopsy. i am sure your dr has done the proper bloodwork in additon to the ultrasound and has found nothing suspicious to warrant further testing. Again, you are freaking yourself out by making this a much bigger issue than it needs to be. My grandmother died at age 33 to breast cancer...both my mom and my aunt have gotten it. Am I likely to, probalby, but do I think about it, no. Why? Because there is nothign I can do about it. If I get it, I get treatment, if I don't, my life doesn't change. You can't spend your life in a box worried about what MIGHT happen. You are far too young to be concerned about it. I highly recommend you do some research on PCOS...I feel like you need to learn a bit more about what exactally is going on in your body. In additon, PCOS can be essentially cured by losing 10-15 % of yoru body weight, taking metformin to help your body process sugars better. Once ovulation is restored and a regular period has resumed and you have done all of these things, it is possible for PCOS to go away and not cause any future problems or damage.
My aunt-in-law was recently diagnosed with advanced cancer. The doctor has suggested that with chemotherapy she may live 1-2 more years. What is your advice for me to help my wife and her family during this time?
You asked specifically what you can do to be helpful in this situation for the whole family, so I will make suggestions from that perspective, assuming you are a 'support person' in the process as opposed to one who will be directly involved in the care of your wire's aunt. Do whatever you can to be on call, as it were, for as much time as possible. Make it clear to your wife that when you are not actually at work she has your blessing in calling on you for any support function which meets the family's need.That could be transportation to treatment, child care, running errands, fixing meals, etc.Be the go-to person for research. Assuming you are computer savvy, take on the task of looking up answers to questions and solution to problems which will arise by the gross. Find the quickest, best route to the treatment center, research suggested options for managing nausea, seek out a reputable place to purchase wigs. Just so the 'leg' work. Provide emotional stability. The tearful times will come. Panic will set in if the patient experiences something unusual or unexpected. Depression will rear its ugly head.Be prepared to be reassuring and positive in the face of whatever happens.If you need your times to 'lose it', seek out a buddy who is detached from the situation and ask him to just let you vent. Then pull it together and get back into the fray. It's not going to be 'about you' for awhile. Sorry, that's life.
Can ovarian cancer be cured?
Frankly speaking there is not cure for cancer and timely detection and treatments viz. Surgery (Here it is removal of overies) chemo therapy and Radiation Therapy, can ery well extend the life of the patient. It depends on various factors and your Onclogist will be better judge to tell after studying the stage etc. The likely course of ovarian cancer is predicted using prognostic factors. The only universally accepted prognostic factors for patients with ovarian cancer are stage and, in advanced stage patients, volume of residual disease. Other factors that may be important but about which there is continued debate include patient age, histopathologic grade, and DNA ploidy. Many other putative prognostic factors have been reported but the data are still considered preliminary. See also Peritoneal Fluid Cytology and CA125. Serum levels of CA125 correlate with volume of disease. Although high preoperative CA125 levels may predict unresectability and poor survival, postoperative CA125 levels appear to be more prognostic. Some investigators believe that although CA125 levels may be useful predicting group outcomes, they lack the power to guide individual treatment decisions. Please do not worry and continue with the good treatment and she may live for more years.-
I'm 13, and I'm terrified that I might have ovarian cancer. What should I do?
It’s true that it is extremely unlikely that you would have this disease at your age. But I want to share my experience. When I was about 10, in the 1960s, one of my aunts died of breast cancer and another aunt had radical surgery and chemo and survived. Subsequently, I became convinced I had it, and from the time I was 11–13 or so, I lived in this idea that I had it. When I was in 8th grade, I finally told a friend, who told her mother, who told my mother, and I got taken to the doctor. In my case, there was nothing wrong, it was just normal puberty. It’s taken me a lifetime to understand why all that happened, and it’s too much to try to summarize here, but various traumas I had experienced led me to believe I had cancer.If you are experiencing worries and/or physical symptoms, it is unlikely to be ovarian cancer but it is important to see a practitioner to figure out what the symptoms are about. So I just want to support you in getting to a doctor and talking with them. If the doctor isn’t supportive, if they brush you off or even worse, think it’s funny, just walk out the door and find someone else— don’t allow yourself to be ridiculed because of your concerns.I find Nurse Practitioners to be the best first-step in seeking Western medical help. Their training and temperaments are much more humane than MDs in general, and they can do almost everything an MD can do. For sure, don’t go to a specialist MD. Go to a general practitioner, preferably one who works with youth.Please allow yourself to be seen by a licensed health practitioner. It’s really important for you to know what is going on with your health. This kind of worry can really interfere with enjoyment of life and interfere in making future plans. Please don’t spend any more of your precious youth in worry— go find out.
My aunt died 9/13/06 after fight cancer for 20 years,do you know a survivor story?
My grandmother had leukemia... but she's been in remission for some time now and I seriously doubt that it will ever come back. I feel for you. I lost my aunt to breast cancer last year.
Do I have Ovarian Cancer? Please answer, I'm so scared :(?
Changes in appetite, often a loss of appetite or feeling full sooner Feelings of pressure in the pelvis or lower back Needing to urinate more frequently Changes in bowel movements Increased abdominal girth Feeling tired or low energy Persistent abdominal bloating, indigestion or nausea Those are some symptoms, I'm experiencing all of them
Is there any surviving chance for ovarian cancer patients at stage 3?
Stage 3 cancer of the ovary means the cancer has spread outside the area surrounded by your hip bones (the pelvis) into the abdominal cavity. Your cancer is also stage 3 if cancer is found in the lymph nodes in your upper abdomen (tummy), groin or behind the womb. So stage 3 cancer can be3a - using a microscope, cancer growths can be seen in tissue taken from the lining of the abdomen3b - there are visible tumour growths on the lining of the abdomen that are 2cm across or smaller3c - there are tumour growths larger than 2cm on the lining of the abdomen, or cancer in lymph nodes in the upper abdomen, groin or behind the womb, or bothSource: Pillsforall ! Ovarian CancerCurrently, the standard treatment for stage III ovarian cancer consists of both surgery and chemotherapy. Unfortunately, less than 40% of patients experience long-term survival following standard treatment. This is because stage III ovarian cancer is often difficult to remove completely with surgery and currently available chemotherapy is unable to eradiate all of the remaining cancer.Cytoreductive SurgeryChemotherapy for Stage III Ovarian CancerIntraperitoneal Chemotherapy
Can I sue Johnson & Johnson in regards to Ovarian Cancer being caused by the powder they had, my cousin died of it, and I got mine out?
Sure. You can sue whomever you want. That doesn’t mean it will necessarily go anywhere.There has been a presumed link between talc use and ovarian cancer for a while now. However, a new study is out (in the November 2016 issue of Epidemiology) that challenges that conclusion.The Sister Study, which is conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (one of the National Institutes of Health), is a large, longitudinal study looking at the connection between genetic, environmental and experiential factors and the risk of breast cancer and other conditions, including ovarian cancer. Over 50,000 women (sisters of women who were diagnosed with breast cancer) have been enrolled. I am one of those 50,000 participants. Because of that, I receive news of some of the papers being produced as a result of this study.The Sister Study looked at the connection between talc use and ovarian cancer and did not see an increased risk of ovarian cancer in women who use talc. But they did find an increased risk in women who douche:Douching, Talc Use, and Risk of Ovarian Cancer.You can be sure that Johnson & Johnson will seize upon this study in its defense against these lawsuits. This study may make receiving any kind of judgement or settlement against J&J much more difficult.If you’re interested in perusing the many papers published as a result of the Sister Study, go to:The Sister Study