Re: Ovarian Cancer Surgery - Update from 5/14 message
From: Dr (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 29 May 1997 17:29:14 -0500 (CDT)
At Wed, 28 May 1997, Kathy wrote:
>
>I asked about laporoscopic surgery in the removal of an ovarian cyst on
>May 14 and 15.
My
>doctor examined the mass, he was sure that it was a cyst. It was too
>large to remove in one piece, so he cut it into small pieces so that he
>would not have to open me up more.
...today I got the call...the lab
>report came back, I have cancer. My doctor could not tell anything
>about it except that
>an oncologist will call me to set up an appointment. My dad died of
>colon cancer. His doctor discovered it during surgery. He told me that
>ther was nothing else he could do for my father and that he was sending
>him to an oncologist. I think of an oncologist as a "Doctor Death", the
>last stop on the way out. I am so frightened. Doesn't cancer spread if
>the tumor is disturbed? Can it be cured ?
--
Kathy,
It can of course be cured. If it looked like a cyst for an experienced
surgeon it was probably a beginning shape. A limited cancer. If your
Dr took the precaution to cut it and remove it through a bag the risk of
"disturbance" is zero. One more point: in ovarian cancer the oncologist
ios certainly not a Dr death but a full member of the team. Chemotherapy
is efficent in that disease much moer than in gut cancer.
Good luck
--
Bernard Cristalli MD CNGOF
Paris - France
http://www.obgyn.net/corresp/cristalli.htm
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