Hi all
Over the last couple of days I've been feeling very jittery waiting for histology/pathology results. Everything seems to have moved so fast from having various scans to surgery, biospies and washings. I was found to have a 4.5cm complex ovarian cyst with irregular walls, multiple septation's and single solid component measuring 1.5cm. I also had raised CA125 at 270 and CRP was more than double, therefore i was put under gynae oncology team. I am pre - menopausal and have no children and insisted on just cyst removal. I have previous history of endometriosis and ovarian endometriomas but my CA 125 has never been raised and my previous endometrioma's have been identified during scans pre-surgery. I am hopeful as i feel if it was sinister my surgeon would have known when he operated and if it was anything sinister I would have heard by now. I assume people are normally told immediately after surgery or are invited in early if cancer was found. I'm clutching to straws, I know. Please can you share your experience of how you found out, was it pre surgery, post surgery or after receiving biopsy/histology results.
Thank you all for listening
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I am having my operation on Tuesday under the same symptoms as you but have opted for full removal of ovaries as I am 58 Post Menopausal but would also like to know the answer to your question. Pre surgery they have not been able to say if it is cancerous or benign but I have a ca125 of 400 but still hopeful x
Wishing you all the best for surgery on Tuesday hope it does smoothly, it's such a worrying time. The scans / mri described it as an indeterminate lesion with both malignant and benign features. I was just told 'you do no endometriosis can lead to cancer', I sat there quietly thinking to myself well not really though about as fortunately aside from producing cysts the endometriosis has never caused me any issues. I have no family history of cancer so have no reason to believe it is. But now starting to worry a little because i have since learnt not having never had children and having endometriosis does increase risk.
I also have no family history and no children, but looking at more information makes me more worried so I have stopped googling and am just waiting and trying to keep busy. I cannot change what it is and at the moment I just hate the pain so much that I am looking forward to getting the surgery done .
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