Welcome. It's not a very active list, but we're all hear listening when
needed. Congrats on being good for over a year! Big step to get past that
year mark. I'm now over five years cancer free!

I guess my question is why didn't they do a hysterectomy? It would make
sense to me (at age 51) that surgery would be the first course of treatment.

Mary Anne

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Gibson [mailto:m9v4kh6t@...]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:01 PM
To: Cervical-Cancer@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Cervical-Cancer] New Member from Canada


Hi there my name is Barb Gibson I'm almost 51 years old (birthday is
in August)and I live in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada I'm 1 year
and 1 month in remission from cervical cancer.
I had 5 weeks of chemo and 8 weeks of regular radiation,then the
doctors decided to give me internal radiation which involved a
operation room, tubes stuck up me, then a loney 18 hours in a
isolated room by myself while little radiated balls roamed around the
tubes stuck inside me and zapped the cancer. You werre only allowed
to lay on your left or right side and if you wanted to change
postitions you had to call the nurse to help so you would not
accidently knock the tubes out which were bound to your stomach.
Now I have sevre heavy scarring on my cervix due to the radiation and
have to use dialators to keep the area open for exam which is a pain.
I'm also on Climara 50 (Estradiol 17B)patches which I change once a
week to relieve early menopause caused by the cancer treatment, those
are stuck onto my thigh or bum and the location changed weekly.

My last checkup at the Canadian Cancer Clinic was here in Vancouver
on July 21st and everything is O.K. no sign of the cancer coming back
and now don't have to go back again until November. Yeahh!

I'm glad I found this group well roaming around loking for a support
site for a friend.

I hope to talk to you all via e-mail soon. Barb Gibson






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