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nccancercare: Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer among women causing 15,000 deaths a year.(Source: Ovarian Cancer Awareness)Ovarian cancer is difficult to detect and could often be fatal when detected too late. If diagnosed at an early stage, the five-year survival rate is more than 93 percent. The cause is unknown but there are some factors that could increase your risk. Taking oral contraceptive, giving birth and breast feeding are a few ways to reduce your risk of ovarian cancer. Risk factorsCertain risk factors may increase your risk or ovarian cancer. Having one or more of the risk factors does not mean that you will develop it, but your risk is higher than the average woman. These risk factors include the following: Not giving birth Giving birth at a late age Mutations in the genes BRCA1 or BRCA2 Women who have had breast cancer or have a family history of breast cancer or ovarian cancer Women who take estrogen replacement for five or more years Older women SymptomsThe most common symptoms for ovarian cancer are hard to classify and are often symptoms to other diseases, so by the time cancer is diagnosed the tumor has often spread. Some symptoms for ovarian cancer are as follows: Bloating Difficulty eating Pelvic of lower abdominal pain Abnormal menstrual cycles Digestive symptoms Constipation Increased gas Lack of appetite Nausea and vomiting Back pain Vaginal bleeding Weight gain or loss Sudden urge to urinate If you are encountering any of these symptoms, notify your doctor as soon as possible. TreatmentTreatment for ovarian cancer usually involves a combination of surgery and chemotherapy. Hysterectomy Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (removal of other ovaries and fallopian tubes Examination, biopsy, or removal of the lymph nodes and other tissues in the pelvis and abdomen Chemotherapy Radiation
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Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer among women causing 15,000 deaths a year.(Source: Ovarian Cancer Awareness)Ovarian cancer is difficult to detect and could often be fatal when detected too late. If diagnosed at an early stage, the five-year survival rate is more than 93 percent. The cause is unknown but there are some factors that could increase your risk. Taking oral contraceptive, giving birth and breast feeding are a few ways to reduce your risk of ovarian cancer.

Risk factors
Certain risk factors may increase your risk or ovarian cancer. Having one or more of the risk factors does not mean that you will develop it, but your risk is higher than the average woman. These risk factors include the following:

  • Not giving birth
  • Giving birth at a late age
  • Mutations in the genes BRCA1 or BRCA2
  • Women who have had breast cancer or have a family history of breast cancer or ovarian cancer
  • Women who take estrogen replacement for five or more years
  • Older women

Symptoms
The most common symptoms for ovarian cancer are hard to classify and are often symptoms to other diseases, so by the time cancer is diagnosed the tumor has often spread. Some symptoms for ovarian cancer are as follows:

  • Bloating
  • Difficulty eating
  • Pelvic of lower abdominal pain
  • Abnormal menstrual cycles
  • Digestive symptoms
  • Constipation
  • Increased gas
  • Lack of appetite
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Back pain
  • Vaginal bleeding
  • Weight gain or loss
  • Sudden urge to urinate

If you are encountering any of these symptoms, notify your doctor as soon as possible.

Treatment
Treatment for ovarian cancer usually involves a combination of surgery and chemotherapy.

  • Hysterectomy
  • Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (removal of other ovaries and fallopian tubes
  • Examination, biopsy, or removal of the lymph nodes and other tissues in the pelvis and abdomen
  • Chemotherapy
  • Radiation

the new plan

Went to the doctor today and learned that there is a a trial with a something called a MEK inhibitor that looks like it might be good for me. Currently my hospital is working on getting approved to run this trial, so I have to wait until summer, when my doctor thinks it will be ready for the “guinea pigs”. So until then I will be taking tomaxofin, a hormone inhibitor, yes breast cancer patients take this drug, and see if it shrinks my tumors. This is similar to what I did this past summer. I will get my IP port out in two weeks and then see my doctor in six weeks for a check up.

So in other words I get to be a “normal” person for the next couple of months, finish up school and wait to get in the MEK inhibitor trial. Which is great!

Now just to find an internship for the summer!

jennipenni3d: Turnover as I turn a new leaf yet again “Medical Update”- Today I had a follow up CT, before treatment. The CT showed that the chemo is not doing what it needs to be doing, also my CA-125 was up from three weeks. That means that the chemo I was suppose to get did not happen. I have now been kicked out of my THIRD clinical trial as a way to kick this cancer. But that does not mean I am giving up, I just have to try something new. I don’t know what that will be, but it will be another step in this journey. I will know what I will do next in a week, until then I don’t know, and don’t have answers or explanations. In other news Mom and I safely made it through some of the fun snow, but had to stop at a hotel for the night, hopefully we can make it home where I can chill with my awesome parents.
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jennipenni3d:

Turnover as I turn a new leaf yet again

“Medical Update”- Today I had a follow up CT, before treatment. The CT showed that the chemo is not doing what it needs to be doing, also my CA-125 was up from three weeks. That means that the chemo I was suppose to get did not happen. I have now been kicked out of my THIRD clinical trial as a way to kick this cancer. But that does not mean I am giving up, I just have to try something new. I don’t know what that will be, but it will be another step in this journey. I will know what I will do next in a week, until then I don’t know, and don’t have answers or explanations.

In other news Mom and I safely made it through some of the fun snow, but had to stop at a hotel for the night, hopefully we can make it home where I can chill with my awesome parents.
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