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[risasloane.livejournal.com]

hey all, my names risa, im currrently 17 years old, i just felt like i should share my story with everyone since iw as posting some comments, and i wasn't part of the community (although i did post my comments in my other journal fornicate_me)

so it all started off when i was in puerto rico, in november, i had gotten my periods 4 times, which they had run into eachother exactly 17 days apart, months before, i had been any where from 20-35 days apart with my periods, i had gotten it when i was 12 years old, and at this point in time, i was 16...after i got home from puerto rico, i went to my doctor, she set up an ultra suond for me and i had gotten it done...when we recieved the news from the scan, they told me that i have a tumor on my right ovary that was 13cmX9cmX4cm in exact...thats more or less the size of a cantaloupe to put it...i went to my OBGYN, and we set up laproscopic surgeyr, he said that it was going to be trickey due to the size, i wound up having my surgery in february but it was half laproscopic half cut open, so in my pelvic region, i have 2 small dots, then an incision about an inch long...

i had my post-op visit weeks later, and found out that my tumor was considered borderline, which meant that it wasn't cancerous, but it wasn't begning-confusing right? well they sent my labs out to the scully labratory in boston, massachusetts (at harvard university) this was because my OBGYN (who may i say is the best laproscopic surgeon for gynocology in NYC) didn't know many cases like mine, especially for a 16 year old...then about 5 weeks later, i remeber on march 25th, we had another doctors appointment set up...

this time we went to the oncologist, it turned out that the tumor was found to be cancerous, that meant i had ovarian cancer, so i had emergancy surgery to remove my right ovary allong with the fallopian tube...i feel that it is very important that if you have bad cramps, and dont feel well to go to your doctor or to your gyno to get checked up upon, because now that i am cancer free and mostly healthy, that if in fact, that i hadn't gone to the doctor and spoke up, i could be really sick, even though the tumor had stage 2 cancer i didn't have to get chemo, which i thank god pretty much every day...

im just sayin-watch out, because you never know whats goin on in your body, i hope you all learn something, maybe you will maybe you wont, if you ahve anyquestions just comment...=)

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[achtungbaby.livejournal.com]

so do you know if there are any odds of you getting an tumor on the other ovary?

and i'm so sorry you had to go through it all, but i'm extremely glad that it was caught so early. cancer, no matter where it is in the body is a horrible thing. and thank you so much for shairing your story. just goes to show that even at a younger age things can still happen to your inner girl parts.

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[risasloane.livejournal.com]

there is a high chance, the doctor said, since this is so rare, there is a higherchance of it occuring on the left ovary, he said about a 75% chance, thats pretty high, so i have to go in for different tests every 3-6 months meaning ultrasounds, blood tests, cat scans, mri's, all different stuff, but they dont want me getting too much radiation incase it affects my left ovary...

its okay, im glad it was caught early too, i am just able to say i survied cancer w/o knowing it =), but yeah, it does show that at 16 you can get sick w/o knowing it.

[sweetlkhoney.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear about your ordeal.
Will you be able to have children?

[risasloane.livejournal.com]

thats okay, i just hope people learn from it... i will be able to have children, not that i want to have my own, if infact, it will pass on to my kids something like this