I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer 2 years after my breast cancer diagnosis. They removed my uterus, cervix, tubes, and ovaries. When the biopsy results came back they showed that the cancer had started to move into my tubes. Even though I was 53 at the time I wasn't in menopause yet when they removed everything, but it was in my best interest to have everything removed since my breast and endometrial cancers were both hormone positive and I have a CHEK2 defect which makes you more likely to get cancer. If you are already in menopause then you don't need your ovaries. Since your cancer is hormone positive it would just make sense to remove the ovaries along with the tubes while they are in your abdomen doing surgery.and that way there's no chance those ovaries could produce any estrogen at all to feed your ER positive cancer.

I did both: double mastectomy and tube/ovary removal. No big deal at all for the ovaries. It’s 4 tiny incisions on your belly that they just put tiny plasters on. I didn’t feel this as an additional “weight” to my DMX. One and done.

Hi Deborah. I noticed on your profile comments that you are taking Tamoxifen. As an FYI Tamoxifen does up your risk of endometrial cancer. I can understand why the gynocolgist is concerned about potentially getting ovarian cancer since your mom had it. The hysterectomy with ovary and fallopian tube removal was a fairly easy surgery for me. I didn't have a lot of pain and was up and moving around right after surgery. I spent one night in the hospital after surgery. I started off being able to walk from the hospital bed to the door to my room. I would get up every hour and walk a little further each time. By the time I left the next day I was walking laps around the entire hospital ward I was in. I've had other surgeries that were far worse including the double mastectomy, DIEP surgery, partial nephrectomy, and having my gallbladder removed. When I had my mastectomy done I thought about having my ovaries removed at the same time, but decided to hold off only because the recovery would be harder having my chest and belly out of commission at the same time. Definitely see what your oncologist thinks would be best and if you haven't had gene testing ask your oncologist if you're a candidate. Whether you do or you don't have any potential cancer causing gene defects will help you and your oncologist figure out the best treatment plan options for you.

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I had a total hysterectomy, except for the right ovary was left in, in 1979.

I don’t know why and I did not question it at the time. Maybe because
6 months later in 1980 I had an orange sized cyst removed from my right kidney .

This is when I found out I had horseshoe kidney (connected kidneys).

I was first diagnosed with what I thought was DCIS when I was 67.

Looking at my records in MyChart it mentions IDC

I will double check with my oncologist at next visit in July.

Had my right ovary been removed would I have cancer?

I now have 4 different kinds of cancer, all slow growing. Breast, lung, MBC and how BCC.

I will be 80 in April.

I had 5 sisters and 4 brothers. Only 1 sister had a lumpectomy.

Heart disease was prevalent in my family.

Brothers had only skin cancer.

My father died of stomach cancer in October 1979 at age 76.

My mother died of heart failure in 1983 at age 73.

I have a pacemaker.

I’m sure my first 25 radiation sessions caused my total heart failure, which necessitated the pacemaker.

In 2021 I had 15 more radiation sessions for my lung cancer.

My last remaining sibling will be 92 in April, 1 day before my birthday.
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