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Bill Wilson - 11 Apr 2004 05:15 GMT

My wife of 29 years was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in June of 2003. The
tumor was not contained to the ovary, but the doctors said that it was just
in her abdomen. It was a clear cell cancer. They pulled all of the lymph
nodes up to around her heart and they were negative.

The oncologist said that they would give 4 treatments of the first line
defense chemotherapies and that was just a precaution. After the first 4,
the CA125 was at 7.5 at the end of September. Her next checkup was
scheduled for January. Around Thanksgiving, she experienced some fluid
retention in the abdomen and when it was tapped to relieve the pressure, the
cancer marker had gone to over 1500.

It is now early April and the complications from this cancer only give her a
couple of months to live at best.

Do not trust the oncologists. Even if they say they think they've got it,
MAKE them check you monthly.

I'll give more details to anyone that emails me
faststart@intergate.com

Nasty old disease that needs to be attacked aggressively.

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J - 11 Apr 2004 13:56 GMT

> My wife of 29 years was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in June of 2003. The
> tumor was not contained to the ovary, but the doctors said that it was just
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> Nasty old disease that needs to be attacked aggressively.

Hello Bill I'm sorry to hear about your wife and so young.
Why not post the information (leaving out names) rather than reply to maybe
multiple e-mails.
Posting also benefits readers who don't want to e-mail (munged e-mail addresses)
you and provides us a chance to talk over what happened.
Ovarian cancer, I first saw described, as a "silent killer" because the signs
and symptoms can easily be mistaken for something else, hence delays. In
addition, the investigations delay diagnosis, the surgerie(s) delay treatments.

There's a lot here. http://www.oncologychannel.com/ovariancancer/index.shtml

If you'd known earlier that the cancer wasn't responding to the treatment
protocol, you would have had her have more aggressive treatment, but you don't
say what treatment she had.
http://www.oncologychannel.com/ovariancancer/chemo2.shtml

I'm not sure, at this point, that the oncologists can be blamed, but I can
certainly understand your anger and distress at the recent news.
Help us to understand, please.
J

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Steph - 11 Apr 2004 18:35 GMT

> My wife of 29 years was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in June of 2003. The
> tumor was not contained to the ovary, but the doctors said that it was just
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> Do not trust the oncologists. Even if they say they think they've got it,
> MAKE them check you monthly.

Bill, they gave her the best treatment available. It's the cancer which is
the enemy, not the oncologists

And if they had checked her weekly, it would not have affected
anything............

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