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Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: 9 hours ago | Replies (253)
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@carointheuk thank you so very very much for your reply. I appreciate it so much. Have a suggested treatment for you with your early stage? Hopefully you can have chemo or radiation or something and not have to do this Complete eradication of and plastic surgery. I really really really worry about the Recovery and if I make it through the Recovery. And that’s if I make it through the surgery. Thank you so much for your reply.
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@lindarosemanweiss
Hiya, The treatment plan for me, having had CT and MRI scans to determine that there seems to be no spread, is 'excision with flap'. So that just involves cutting out the cancerous area and a wide margin around it, and patching with a very thin layer of tissue.
I've had radiotherapy once, and brachytherapy is more common for vagunal/vulvar cancer and I may have that depending on what they find and assessment of risk of it spreading through to the anus. They're keeping chemo for any possible later cancers.
Because they can do plastic surgery on the vulva using thin "Angel Wings' shaped patches of skin taken from the to of the leg, it seems not to be as bad in recovery as I'd imagined. I meditate, so that helps and I have friends who support me in that.