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Hi Corinne,
Thank you for sharing your experience. I applaud you for turning your body into a temple and for working out daily!! Your experience as a young woman certainly makes this disease & treatment more challenging for you than for me, but we share the fear of recurrence and all of the unknowns (even to our oncologists) about this aggressive cancer. And I donāt know if having or not having Lynch syndrome makes a difference in any way.
I wish you well and will continue to read posts for updates. It is good to have āsistersā who understand and support each other.
Hi corinne1985. I'm 15 years your senior and I was diagnosed with mixed uterine clear cell and serous cancer 3A diagnosed 6/2024. I have exactly the same thoughts you have and I'm doing all the life style things you are doing. In addition to that I'm working with a holistic doctor. I also have Crohn's disease and it went undiagnosed for probably 15 years. Once it's was identified I want on an immune suppressing drugs to control the inflammation and gut damage. I think that created a perfect storm. My goal is to get my immune system to work properly without immune suppressing drugs. I can't figure that out on my own. That why I'm working with the holistic doctor. So I'm mixing both medical and complementary therapies hoping my body will be able clear cancer cells as it should.
I write to help with anxiety. If you go to my profile you will see my writing and how I've been processing my situation.
Corrine,
It would seem to me a CT scan would be done at intervals to check for spread. Yes, your uterus and assorted parts are gone but reoccurrence can occur in the vaginal cuff and cancer could have spread out of the uterus via lymph nodes or even through the fallopian tubes during surgery. It is good you were able to do both radiation and chemo as the combo is synergistic giving better results.