Re: OVARIONCANER: Dermoid? Ovarian Cancer
From: T. Lyons MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:04:05 -0500 (CDT)
Message posted on T. Lyons, MD behalf by: Hope Waltman, Fibroid and
Women’s Health Forum Moderator
Unlikely that this is cancer. Your doc should help you decide what
you want to do but there is no way to make a diagnosis from outside
you have to have surgery to do this. Therefore if you are having
symptoms (pain, etc.), You may want to consider a surgery for
diagnosis and treatment. Ask your doc.
--
T. Lyons, MD
ATLANTA, GA, Sightline of Atlanta
http://www.thomasllyons.com
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At Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Sherry wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>Some background:
>I am 45 years old with no pregnancies. Cancer in my family: father's
>side, his mother died of ovarian cancer at age 50 and his brother died
>of pancreatic cancer at age 60.
>
>In 1990 I had a large dermoid on my right ovary. I had surgery and the
>dermoid and ovary were removed.
>
>In 1997, I had a CT scan for something else and they saw that I had a
>small dermoid on my left ovary. They tried to remove it laposcropopl
>but could not because there was too much scar tissue. In each of these
>instances the way that they determined it was a dermoid was because of
>the bone/calcification in the cyst that was detected on the scan.
>
>In January of 2008, I was having pain near my left ovary and my Dr.
>ordered an internal ultrasound. What they found: 3 small fibroids and 2
>cysts on my left ovary.
>
>A couple weeks later I had another ultrasound, during a certain time in
>my cycle to get a better picture. What they found: I still had the 3
>small fibroids. Additionally saw that one of the cysts on the ovary was
>gone but other one was still there.
>
>Six months later I had another ultrasound with the same findings 3
>fibroids (same size as 6 months ago) and a left ovarian cyst (same size
>as six months ago, size 13 x 10 ml). My GYN thinks that the left
>ovarian cyst is most likely a dermoid. I was wondering what the chances
>are that this cyst might not be a dermoid and instead be Ovarian Cancer?
>I see from this website that only 1% dermoids recur. I asked my doctor
>if I could have a CT scan to see if they could see bone/calcisfication
>which would then really confirm a diagnosis of a dermoid. My Dr. said
>that the cyst is too small for the CT to pick-up that information.
>
>If it were Ovarian Cancer, within a six month period, could the size of
>the cyst stay the same size? How quickly does an ovarian cancer cyst
>grow in size? I had asked my Dr. if I should have the blood test for
>Ovarian Cancer, she said that if I wanted it she would order it. She
>also said that this blood test is not always accurate.
>
>In June of 2008 after having my regular pap smear they found that there
>were an abundance of cells. My doctor had me come in and she took a
>sample, I believe it was of my uteral lining. The results came back
>fine with no cancer cells.
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