@ihndz Irma, I did not have any symptoms associated with the recurrence of my cancer (endometroid adenocarcinoma, FIGO Grade 1, Stage 1). My nurse practitioner found a very tiny polylp on my vaginal cuff cancer surveillance appointment (there had been nothing there 6 months prior). She removed it and sent it to pathology for biopsy. It came back positive for the same cancer I was diagnosed with two years earlier. After conferring with the gynoncologists in her department (Mayo Clinic) she ordered a PET/MR from head to pelvis. It showed nothing suspicious. My nurse practitioner was surprised with this finding as were the doctors thinking that there must have been a tumor forming at, behind, or near the vaginal cuff. With the results of the pathology report on the polyp and the negative results from the PET/MR I was referred to radiation oncology. I then had both external pelvic and internal (brachytherapy). That was two years ago and since then I've been returning every four months for cancer surveillance and there has been no evidence of disease.

Like you, it has been difficult at times for me not to dwell on a recurrence or a new cancer. I try to let those thoughts go.

If you are like me and keep up your cancer surveillance appointments the likelihood is that if anything changes or shows up it will be caught very early. That's what happened with me and for that I'm very grateful.

I do what you do. Travel, enjoy family and friends and I get compliments that I don't look my age (72). I do everything I can to stay healthy but the not-looking-my-age is down to genetics. My father and his family were the same. Do you get those compliments too?