has anyone had 7 round of carboplatin Taxel chemio? 4 before debulking surgery and 3 after? with addition of BEVACIMZUMA on the 6th chemio? I m interested to know how you felt with the 7th round (which is what I m going to have soon ) Thank you
Hi all, I’m looking for some advice if anyone has been in a similar situation. This could cover cervical and ovarian cancers. In 2023 I had an abnormal smear which turned out to be CIN1, I was advised a follow up in a year. Since August 2024 I started...
Hi everyone, I am 24 years old and had a 19cm ovarian cyst on my left ovary which has a suspicious looking mural nodule. I had the cyst and mural nodule removed via minilaparotomy about 6/7 weeks ago now and just had my biopsy results back after multiple...
Hi everyone, I have just joined the forum today so relatively new to all this! After having bloating, back pain, pelvic pain and now sciatica I paid to have an ultrasound during the week. Im 45 years old. They described a well defined area on my...
if anyone is having this drug every 3 weeks could you tell me please your experience of side effects? I started 1st dose. It was added to my chemio n.6 and it will be added to chemio n.7 , my last. Then I will have to continue just with it for several...
I’m not sure where to began. I feel completely lost like time has just stopped. Maybe I’m jumping ahead of myself but I really am fearing the worst. about 4 weeks ago I had my smear test and that same evening I started experiencing severe pelvic pain...
have recently had a diagnosis of a granulosa cell tumour that ruptured around 7 weeks ago and was removed in surgery and have been advised to undergo a full hysterectomy and left ovary removal ( I have already had my right ovary removed and fallopian...
I have stage 4 ovarian cancer, had 5 rounds of chemo ( carboplatin and Paclitaxel February 2024 to July 2024, followed by debulking surgery in August. I have now started another 6 rounds of chemo with the same 2 drugs but a third drug bevacizumab was...
Hi, my aunt has recently had to stop taking Niraparib after her platelets dropped very low. Has anyone else experienced this? If so how long did the platelets take to recover (it’s been 2 weeks since stopping now and they are only slightly improved) and...
Has anyone had all the symptoms but nothing has shown on scans. I'm actually not functioning and unsure as what to do next. The doctors won't refer me but I haven't eaten for ages and have a lot of right side bloating which is uncomfortable.. also a distended...
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