Prior to my diagnosis of Serous Ovarian Cancer, Stage III C, I recall having symptoms for about two years that things were not quite right: chief of which was an irregular, heavy menstrual cycle that I kept brushing aside as "nothing". I convinced myself that I didn't have time to go to the doctor for such a benign issue. I…
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Though I was diagnosed with stage 3c ovarian cancer in August of 2018, I believe my journey with ovarian cancer began when I tested positive for the BRCA 1 genetic mutation in 2015. Learning then that I was high risk for certain cancers, ovarian being one, shook my world upside down and inside out. When a genetic counselor sat down…
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My husband and I had been trying to have a baby since the birth of our son in 1999. By 2002 I had already had three miscarriages, and in February of 2003, we learned that I was pregnant again. During the years leading up to this pregnancy, I suffered from consistent, painful, large ovarian cysts on both ovaries. Each cyst…
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