A RUNCORN cancer survivor has actually spoken regarding her battle to increase awareness of the disease.
Janet Scrowston, from Sandymoor, was diagnosed in June 2014 and has actually shared her tale to highlight Ovarian Cancer Month duringMarch.
The Spire Cheshire Hospital radiographer visited her GP after finding a swelling regard her stomach.
She said: “I was match and well and has actually no noticeable symptoms until one day I really felt a swelling in the reduced section of my stomach.
“I as soon as possible visited notice my GP that referred me when it come to an urgent ultrasound scan which mentioned I owned a cyst regard my left ovary.”
After analysing scans, Dr Brett Winter-Roach, a consultant gynaecologist at Spire Cheshire Hospital, suspected a malignant ovarian tumour.
“Listening to that I can have actually cancer was such a shock,” claimed Janet.
“It was a surreal suffer as though it was happening to somebody else.”
The cancer was caught in its rather very early stages.
The 61-year-aged added: “Within a week I was booked in when it come to surgery – thankfully the entire tumour was gotten rid of intact and all of the diseased cells were encapsulated within the tumour.
“2 weeks after my surgery I obtained the last diagnosis that it was a chief ovarian cancer. It was phase one so many thanks to very early detection I didn’t have to have actually further treatment.
“I really feel very lucky that my tumour was caught very early and can be gotten rid of intact Along with no spread. I really feel it was a time bomb merely waiting to go off.”
One in fifty ladies will certainly make ovarian cancer, Along with 7,000 diagnoses and 4,300 deaths from the health problem in the UK every year.
Symptoms consist of persistent bloating, improved stomach size, consuming problems and needing to urinate much more frequently.
Dr Winter-Roach said: “Once ladies are diagnosed in the very early stages of ovarian cancer they have actually a 90 each cent possibility of either being cured or surviving when it come to much more compared to 5 years yet this reduces to much less compared to 40 each cent Once diagnosed in the later stages.”