My Personal Journey With Ovarian Cancer Treatment: Caring and Chemotherapy Tips
| Autor: | Kim A. Decker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment Ovariectomy education Carcinoma Ovarian Epithelial Risk Assessment Diagnosis Differential Kidney Calculi Adaptation Psychological medicine Malignant cells Humans Neoplasm Invasiveness Neoplasms Glandular and Epithelial Microscopic hematuria General Environmental Science Neoplasm Staging Ovarian Neoplasms Chemotherapy Physician-Patient Relations Narration business.industry Genitourinary system Cancer medicine.disease Combined Modality Therapy Surgery General Earth and Planetary Sciences Female Stage IIIa Empathy Ovarian cancer business Tomography X-Ray Computed Recurrent microscopic hematuria Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Clinical journal of oncology nursing. 20(6) |
| ISSN: | 1538-067X |
| Popis: | Six years ago, I was diagnosed with stage IIIA ovarian low malignant cell potential cancer. It was the most shocking situation I have ever experienced. I didn't realize I had any symptoms, except occasional back pain, which I attributed to starting a new workout program. I had scheduled an abdominal computerized tomography (CT) scan for recurrent microscopic hematuria, which my internist wanted to check. I was told I would hear the results in two days. Two hours after my CT scan, while I was eating ice cream and watching television, an on-call genitourinary doctor (who I did not personally know) called to tell me the good news-that I had kidney stones, thus the microscopic hematuria. However, the bad news was that I had ovarian cancer that had spread to my omentum. He said he would call my gynecologist right away. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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