Hi
During routine surgery to remove a polycystic cyst from an ovary, the surgeon decided removal of the ovary was a better option. Subsequent biopsy of the ovary found ovarian cancer. I had a radical hysterectomy which involved removal of the other ovary, part of my cervix, lymph node biopsy and having had endometriosis since puberty, a full endometrial scrape wherever they found traces of endometrium. The cancer seemed to have been contained within that first ovary which had already been removed and the lymph nodes came back clear. I acknowledge that I was extremely lucky.
That was actually back in 2011 so why am I posting now?
Well since then I have had melanoma 3 times. The primary tumour was removed in 2015. It recurred in 2020 and again just now in 2024. Thankfully the metastatic spread is local to the primary tumour site. 3 surgeries (including 2 skin grafts) on my foot so far and I'm currently waiting for biopsy results to see if they need to take out any more skin.
My question to this forum is how would I know if my ovarian cancer is gone or could it still come back 13 years later? What should I look out for? What might happen? To be honest, I kind of shut my run-in with ovarian cancer into a box when I was first diagnosed with melanoma because dealing with them both was too tough emotionally and melanoma has kept me busy ever since. i was given all "all clear" from ovarian in 2015 (a couple of months before first melanoma diagnosis so the celebrations were short lived). But it's like that box has been reopened and I'm now feeling incredibly spooked about ovarian all over again.
Thanks x
