This is not the news that we had wanted but had been half suspecting when all the scans and other tests had indicated malignancy but unfortunately the biopsy had confirmed ovarian cancer following the MDT consultation this afternoon. However, I have to say that it was something that I had suspected all along when she had first had the cancer alert back at the end of January but there is some hope and optimism that can come out of this where the psyching up for preparation for this has regrettably come to fruition.
The first one is that finally at last that things are moving forward where she is meeting an oncologist at the end of this week to discuss a treatment plan which would commence in about 3 weeks’ time. We were also told that the type of cancer that she has got responds well to treatment and should kill and shrink the tumours.
We have been told that she will need chemotherapy which will be done in 3 cycles (each being a 3 week period) having 2 drugs intravenously given over a 5 hour period and then the following week of the other drugs and then the other a week later before the cycle continues.
She has also been told that after the first 3 rounds of chemotherapy that she will have another CT scan to check for the shrinkage of the tumours and to plan the necessary de-baulking surgery that she will need. Additionally, she has also been told that she would need to have both a hysterectomy and oophorectomy before undertaking a further 3 rounds of chemotherapy to get rid of any remnants of cancer cells.following a likely 6 week recovery period after the operation.
I have got my fingers crossed and also touching wood that she should be clear of the cancer by the end of the summer and hope that our lives can get back to normal again. It is going to be a tough road ahead in the next few months but it looks like our local NHS trust can give her the treatment that she needs very soon.
That is all I can say at the moment but the uncertainty about the speculation of what it was is now behind us and we can of course focus on the treatment and her long recovery from this.
