@WeeTattieBogle
Yes! It was a MucinousBorderlineLOvarianTumour. Not carcinoma. Cells not entirely normal but not as abnormal as ov ca. Non- invasive. I don't know where the borderline falls, but, at 1a, you must be just the wrong side of it. My lovely surgeon at St Thomas' said it used to be controversial, but now the WHO has pronounced and reclassified from 'tumours of low malignant potential'. Tho' I keep coming across Gynae consultants at local hospital who trained 20 yrs ago and haven't kept up. Awkward.
I knew that mucinous was closer to GI cancers and responded better to GI chemo than the Ov ca ones, but hadn't heard about GI primaries. I think large tumours - mine was 'over 2 kilos and extended as far as a full-term foetus', but not in the same league as yours! - are a good sign. Slow-growing. Wd surely have metastasised in the time it had taken to grow that large.
No one's mentioned a connection with my colon tumour which is relatively aggressive, but possibly it points to being more susceptible to GI tumours?
My Ca19 was being monitored. Referred to Gastro because of Ca 19 connection with pancreatic cancer. It was stable but higher than normal level. Gastro not much interested. No sign of cancer but mangled lymph node in pelvic area, surgical damage? and suggested a rescan - which Dr Dud in Gyne ignored till I raised it in annual review. Lucky I did, as scan found the colon tumour which wasn't visible 9 months before. St Thomas' were ace, but local hospital Gynae doing the monitoring - not so much. Fortunately, Colo-rectal in same hospital headed by SuperDoc have been brilliant.
How are you doing? Did you have chemo or are you on watchful waiting? Chemo for Borderlines apparently kills more than it cures, which is one reason that I'm a bit obsessive on the subject. Not just 'semantic' as one consultant told me.