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Tanya (tanya)


October 31, 2006


Portland, Maine


April 7, 1975


Ovarian Cancer


Right Ovary: Atypical proliferative (borderline) serous tumor with multiple foci of invasive low grade serous carcinoma. Left Ovary: Same thing, just micro-invasive.


September 2006


Stage 1


07


Grade 1


No


Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel)


Cancer Survivor


Waiting for test results!!


None really, maybe a little bloating and abdominal pain. This is the scary thing about ovarian cancer; few women have any symptoms at all.


I’ve had 3 surgeries total. The 1st was laproscopic when they discovered I didn’t have endometriosis, what they originally thought I had. That’s when they discovered that the 2 huge tumors were either cancerous or pre-cancerous. On the 2nd surgery they removed the 2 tumors and managed to save my ovaries, but the patholgy sent to Johns Hopkins came back showing a 6 mm invasive carcinoma in my right ovary, and the left ovary had a micro-invasive tumor. On January 29th, 2007, I had a total ovarian hysterectomy.


Paclitaxel(Taxol)/Carboplatin(Paraplatin) combination, intravenous, 4 treatments total, 3 weeks apart. My first treatment was Oct. 17th. The side effects weren’t been too horrible. Days 3-6 I felt really bad, but I never vomited! I just felt VERY weak, and VERY sick. I was so pale I scared myself in the mirror, and sometimes I felt so bad I couldn’t even talk. I had HORRIBLE constipation like never before, and I still have heartburn, which I never got before.


Bio-identical HRT in the form of transdermal creams: includes Bi-estrogen, Progesterone, and Testosterone…started March 2007.

No side effects to speak of so far! I highly recommend seeing a HRT specialist to look into bio-identical HRT. After reading “What your doctor may not tell you about menopause” I refuse to go on the “conventional” synthetic hormones most doctors prescribe.




Tanya's Cancer Blog

October 31, 2006

Hello!Views: 232

Hi everyone!

I’ll be posting more information here as I go, so come back often!

Welcome Tanya! LOVE the picture of you animals, too cute. If you need anything please don’t hesitate to ask me. We will be thinking of you as you go through your chemo treatments.

Hi Tanya,
I started chemo the same day as you, also carbo/taxol. If you look at my blog, you’ll see that I’m already hairless. This is a very good week—trying to pretend that chemo #1 isn’t coming up next Tuesday.

Hey there guys, thanks for sharing.
I want to share something with you guys. As you know I’m always proud that I introduced you guys. When I found out of your cancer I felt a little weird because of it. (Introducing you guys).
Before your cancer I felt so happy you found each other, then I felt sad. My first thoughts were with Tanya then I thought what did I place Irvin into, then after some thinking I realized how awesome it was that I introduced you guys, because Tanya you have made Irvin a better person, O.k. there was not a lot to improve because Irvin is so awesome. You did help him to stop smoking, something we had been trying to do for years, and just like that he met you and presto!.
What really made me happy is that you had each other to face all this together. God gave you, Tanya, Irvin to be together in sickness and in health. I’m happier than ever you guys are together, may God make you stronger and I hope the symptoms are mild, I pray you recover and one day look back at this whole ordeal with a happy ending.
Love your hermano, Alex Montero

Tanya, we need to get that pedicure! :-)

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