You may expect the answer to this is 'nobody knows', but actually in the case of Cervical cancer, the causes are known.
In the 1980's doctors noticed that cervical cancer seemed to spread like a STD. There was virtually none in communities of nuns, and a big increase after the 60's when women were, shall we say, given more freedom to do what they wanted!
They then started to review tumors, and found…
That's what I have. Sounds quite scary when it's written down, and someone has said to me I need to think a little more about cancer, and probably a little less about the IVF stuff.
So I'll tell you what I know about Mr Stage 1b1 etc...
Squamous cell carcimona: This means the cancer is in the sqaumous cells. These are the cells that make up one of the layers of your skin, but also the lining of things like…
I have to head to bed now. I have a Scan for IVF tomorrow, followed by another MRI. The MRI is the latest step in trying to qualify for the trachelectomy.
I will continue tomorrow with more info on the planned next steps.
The reason I have time now to sit around and write blogs, is because I have chosen to delay treatment while I go through a cycle of IVF. It's a small gamble, and I wanted to take what may be my last chance to do this.
The goal of this is to hopefully get a few eggs, fertilize them, and then freeze the embryos created - for use somehow in the future.
FYI. Eggs themselves can't be frozen. Or rather, the success rates…
Some of the more attentive of you may have noticed that I don't yet have children.
Despite rumours of screaming, and no sleep, and tantrums in shopping centres, for some reason I still seem interested in them! So far in life the fertility gods have not been that helpful, and that was before they decided to add cancer to the mix.
As you can probably imagine, cervical cancer is quite close to some pretty important…
