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woodsprite

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1. I'd love to know what you're doing.
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 05:06 PM
Feb 2012

It's never too early to be armed in the event it's needed. I'm 5 yrs out from a uterine cancer diagnosis (stage 2A) and am considered 'cured' as of this past April. After 5 years, it doesn't bother me much, but I can honestly say that I still think about it pretty much daily.

I was lucky in that I did not have chemo (wouldn't work for my type) or rads since I was told that you can only have it 1x in that area. I wanted to have some ammo to work with in the event it returned. The research I did said that if it returns after rads, it usually will return in a distant area (lungs, colon, bone, breast). Before rads, if there is a recurrence, it typically will be at the cervical 'cuff'.

If you don't want to post to the list, send me a message. I'm so glad you got such a great report from the doc. You've been in my prayers.

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