Re: cervical cancer, surgery, and fear
From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 4 Nov 2001 13:15:46 -0600 (CST)
You may very well need therapy for your severe worries. They are
founded in family history and to be sure, you are not paranoid about it
BUT with the radical hysterectomy, depending upon the original staging
of the cancer, the statistics are very much in your favor.
As far as the mammogram, cervix doesn't go to breast so this should be
unrelated and if you follow your doctors instructions for further
testing, you should be fine.
Hope this helps and write back anytime for more information.
Dr. M
At Sun, 4 Nov 2001, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
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>I was diagnosed with cervical cancer in Oct of 1999. This in itself is a very scary thing to happen, but with me, the diagnosis was doubly frightening. You see my mother died from metastatic cervical cancer in 1988. She was diagnosed in Oct of 1986. She went through a partial hysterectomy and over the next 2 years was thought to be cancer free. Unfortunately, in Sept. 1988 the cancer came back and she died in Nov of that year. The next blow was my sister. She was diagnosed in Oct 1998 with cervical cancer. She also went through a partial hysterectomy. In April 1999, she had to go back into surgery for a radical, then in Oct she was placed in hospice. She died in Nov. 1999. So you see why I am so terrified. The two year anniversary of my Modified Radical Hysterectomy is coming up in DEC 2001. With my family history, I am so scared I can hardly cope. Now my mamma gram is showing an abnormality. The doctor says its nothing to worry about but how can I not worry about it!
>Can anyone please give me some reason not to be so scared? I don't know how.
>Thanks.
>
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Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York
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