In 2019 my younger sister phoned me and said that she was at the hospital with her husband and she had just been told that she has ovarian cancer and there was a tumour on her left ovary.  

After getting her to back track she explained that she had a loss of appetite, bloating and a pain in her side and her GP thought she might her an appendicitis and sent her to hospital for a scan.

She had a hysterectomy and chemotherapy and just as she finished chemotherapy she caught glandular fever and was in hospital for 3 weeks.  

She was put on chemotherapy tablets and was in remission for 4 months.  

Since then the cancer has come back on her pelvis which they tried treating with chemotherapy but had to operate and remove.  Then it was in her spleen and she had radiotherapy.   The PET-CT scan showed the radiotherapy had got rid of it on her spleen but there was another tumour on the left side of her pelvis and left kidney.   After her oncologist had said there was nothing further that could be done they said they could try radiotherapy but it hadn't been done before on her type of cancer.  She finishes 2 weeks of radiotherapy this Wednesday then we have to wait until she has her next PET-CT scan and hope it has worked.

She has gone through so much over the last 5 years and been so brave.  I know she worries about her husband and son and of course her mum and sisters. 

She was told in the beginning that it couldn't be cured and her oncologist was aiming to get her in remission and if she was in remission for a year she would be alive for  5 years.  She was in remission for 4 months and 5 years later she's still fighting.