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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother died as a result of ovarian cancer. I have yearly pelvic ultrasounds. It's not a silver bullet, but it's the best option there is right now for early detection.[/quote]

Can ovarian cancer be survived with early intervention?[/quote]

Early detection of ovarian cancer is unlikely, unless it is an incidental finding.[/quote]

The actress in the Marvel movies who was also in how I met your mother, is an ovarian cancer survivor.  Yes, it can be survived, depending on a bunch of things.  [/quote]

There’s a type of ovarian cancer that shows up in young women in their twenties that is slow-growing and treatable.  It’s not the same version that women with genetic predispositions get in their 40s or the type that shows up in their 60s.  It’s crappy but it’s true.  Ovarian cancer is often not visible on imaging studies.   I had a friend who went in for a prophylactic oophorectomy and they found ovarian cancer during her surgery.  She had multiple imaging studies done beforehand and it never appeared.  Ovarian cancer sucks and is a silent killer for a reason.  Maybe someday good screening tools will be available, but they just don’t exist right now.  [/quote]

Was that prophylactic surgery for BRCA2?[/quote]

I honestly don’t remember if she had the genetic marker.   What she had was bad family history.  The mother died of it in her early 40s.  There were four daughters.   One daughter developed abdominal symptoms that landed her in the ER and her advanced cancer was found.  Two of her sisters opted for prophylactic oophorectomies at that point.  One had the surgery and was fine, the other had the surgery and cancer was found on the table.   The fourth sister delayed because she still hoped to have a family one day (she was the youngest and in her thirties).

The two with cancer eventually passed away.   I was actually closest to the one who had the prophylactic oophorectomy and was fine in the end.  I also lost my mom to ovarian cancer and have a poor family history of ovarian and breast cancer, though no known genetic markers.   They only know so much though, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they find other genetic links down the road.  I shared an ethnic heritage with that family and I just think our genetics are not as well-studied as some others.  I had an oophorectomy in my late 40s, after treatment for hormone-driven breast cancer.  [/quote]

Sorry to hear. Hope your health troubles are all in the past now. [/quote]

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