When I was 10 weeks pregnant my OB found what they thought was a big cyst on my right ovary. I went in for surgery at 15 weeks pregnant where they discovered it was a germ cell tumor. They removed my ...

In the fall of 2001 I was having all the symptoms of OC but didn’t know it at the time this was going on. I was at perimenopause age, and all my symptoms were able to be described as other things. The...

Hello everyone, I went to the ER on February 7, 2021, with chronic pain in my abdomen. I had a CT scan which showed possibly 2 masses in my abdomen. The two masses were actually one mass that were pus...

I first met the ‘silent cancer’ in October of 2023. While on vacation the first week of October 2023 I felt generally unwell and my belly seemed more bloated than ever before. By the time ...

My mom (Sheila Hutchinson) and I were asked about sharing her cancer journey on the TN in Teal page after her last big update. I’ve just now been able to put a summary together and went to share it on...

I was 53 years old when I was diagnosed with synchronous primary cancer. That means I had 2 primary cancers at once, ovarian (stage 1A) and endometrial (stage 3A). Symptoms started out as spotting whi...

In June of 2022, after more than a year of various health problems that just never went away, my mom was admitted to our local hospital in very bad condition and at what seemed like death’s door...

I was diagnosed 2013 after being so sick for a year and lost so much weight, weighing @ 105lbs. And didn’t have an appetite and very swollen in my abdomen! I would have been a stage 1C but the dr that...

My name is Holly and I was diagnosed with stage III Ovarian Cancer back in 2009 at the age of 32. I underwent two surgeries which ended up being a complete hysterectomy and partial removal of my small...