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Immature teratoma at 33..

I am 33 years old with 2 kids (3.5years and 16 months). There were no symptoms but in my annual exam they found three cyst one on my left ovary and two on my right ovary. The left ovary had big cyst 12.9cmx10.2x14.9cm. The right ovary one were very small. I had removal of these cyst so doctor left my left ovary only 20%. Right ovary is 95% saved. In the frozen section everything came out to be non malignant. After final pathology report they said the left ovary cyst was immature teratoma (grade 3) Doctor is saying to have chemotherapy and I decided not to. Could you please suggest me what are the chances of the reoccurrence of immature teratoma. Also will it be less chance if I remove my both ovaries for it to reoccur? Anyone have any experience with these immature teratoma?
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667078 tn?1316000935
My doctor told me it is too late for me. I will die of this cancer in the next few years.I will be on chemo from her on out. It has been three years of chemo. If you do not have a remission in the first two years that decreases your chances. I have never had a remission. I have had cancer in 14 places so far. Now it is in my blood stream. Once it gets to the spleen all bets are off. That is why they do not take the spleen out when it gets cancer. I am happy. I enjoy my life. Ovarian cancer is the rarest cancer a woman can get and it is the second overall leading cause of death in women.

Alex

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Dont feel like this, that if they would have caught early, because I have so many examples where chemo had remissions so many time whether they were caught early too..
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667078 tn?1316000935
No it was not it was stage 4 ovarian. I just wish mine was found sooner. I have been on chemo since my surgery and will be on it for the rest of my life. I used to think chemo was the worst thing in the world. I ride horses, walk several mornings a week, swim for an hour straight and train dogs while on chemo. I only took one three month break and my cancer grew six times what it had been. I hope you never have to go through what I have gone through. I wish I could of had chemo and then had my cancer go in remission for years.

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Thank you for your suggestion. Was your immature teratoma too?
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667078 tn?1316000935
I am not a doctor just a woman with ovarian cancer. I would at least get a second opinion and if that doctor says chemotherapy I would do it. Removing your ovaries is not the end of ovarian cancer. I have had everything removed. I have cancer in my bowels, spleen, whole lymph system with out any reproductive organs. I only wish they had caught my cancer at an early stage and I had had chemo. I then could have had a remission. My experience has been non stop chemo. I am on my fifth kind of chemo. I will be on it non stop until it no longer works. I would do what the doctors suggest.

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