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Name:
Tanya (tanya)

Member Since:
October 31, 2006

Location:
Portland, Maine

Birthday:
April 7, 1975

Type of Cancer:
Ovarian Cancer

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

Diagnosis Date:
September 2006

Stage of Cancer:
Stage 1

Tumor Size:
07

Grade of Tumor:
Grade 1

Lymph Node Involvement:
No

Chemotherapy:
Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel)

Profile:
Cancer Survivor

What I Hate Most About Cancer:
Waiting for test results!!

Cancer Symptoms:

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

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects:

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.

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects:

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.

Hormone Therapy Description, Dates & Side Effects:

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

January 18, 2007

Ack! Surgery moved up to Jan. 29th!! Views: 95

I know this is a good thing, well, except for the insurance problem, but I’m freaking out a bit. I’m WAY more nervous about having a hysterectomy than I was about the chemo!

I don’t feel prepared at all, and my last hospital experience sucked, to say the least. I actually got worse the longer I stayed. I finally forced myself to eat and walk around and lied to my doctor so he’d let me go home. I remember sitting in my wheel chair in the parking lot with the nurse talking to me about something, all the while I was barley conscious and ready to pass out at any moment. Hopefully none of my doctors read this!

Still no clue about insurance, and there’s no way this will be resolved before the 29th. I have filed a complaint with the dept. of insurance and spoke to someone today from cancer legal resources, and tomorrow is the interview with the reporter. No chance the story will run before I go to the hospital!

Freakin’ health net… they have some serious bad ju-ju coming their way!

Posted on January 18, 2007 at 4:58:04 PM by Tanya ( Link to this post.

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much love your way, tanya and irvin.

Posted on January 24, 2007 at 1:46:23 PM by m (unverified)

Tanya:

Just close your eyes, I will be there to hold your hand.

Sherri

Posted on January 27, 2007 at 11:25:47 PM by karlak

Posted on January 31, 2007 at 12:48:44 PM by manuela c. (unverified)

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