catherine1's blog

  • Feeling scared

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I saw the consultant yesterday and he told me that he is running out of treatment options. I am about to have No 6 of gemcarbo and he is talking about having weekly taxol as next line. He also told me that he thinks I have months to live not years. But he didn't say a number. I don't know what to think now. I don't feel ready to die, I hope it might be more than 12 months but who knows it could be 3 or 4. One minute I…

  • Ovarian cancer and travelling abroad

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    I have just finished treatment for ovarian cancer. I was diagnosed in April 2006 and it has come back twice after my original diagnosis. I have the chance to go to the States with my husband on business and wonder if anyone else on this site has been to America with cancer. I am currently in remission but would appreciate any advice.