Woman had eight organs removed in cancer treatment

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wq15zwlr8o

by Friendly_Fall_

9 comments

  1. “The surgery included the removal of her spleen, gallbladder, appendix, ovaries, uterus, fallopian tubes, belly button, greater and lesser omentum – which connect the stomach and duodenum to other abdominal organs – and part of her liver, as well as the scraping of her diaphragm and pelvis.”

    The important part, for anyone else going ‘…liver, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, stomach, small intestine, large intestine….brain….heart??’

  2. Truly horrific that have to agree to that to try and save your life. Poor woman.

  3. I had a similar cancer and am in recovery from surgery.

    Took far too long to be diagnosed as my symptoms were stomach related and was dismissed as anxiety. I was referred for CBT on the NHS to deal with my nausea and diarrhea. Eventually after having the therapy, my therapist scratched her head and said well this hasn’t worked, perhaps you aren’t simply just anxious. At which point I got referred for the colonoscopy that changed my life.

    I was very very lucky, got told by my nurse that I’d probably be dead now if it hadn’t been discovered when it was.

  4. This cancer also gets called jelly belly cancer.

    I used to be a hospice worker, and whilst all cancers are awful, this particular one always gave me chills because of how aggressive it was, how it doesn’t behave like a “normal” cancer, how it affected the organs in the abdomen, but mostly because of how brutal the treatment was. One of the main treatments is opening you up, and then directly bathing your remaining insides in warmed chemo.

    https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/pseudomyxoma-peritonei/treatment

    It is also grossly underfunded in terms of research.

    This link has more info.

    https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/pseudomyxoma-peritonei/about

  5. I read this as ‘Woman had eight orgasms during cancer treatment’ and I think my story would’ve been much better

  7. Bless her heart. Hope she recovers as well as she can.

    Reading more about this cancer has given me something to really be afraid of.

  8. Right, I’m not reading this out loud today in the Oncology ward. That’s tough but also slightly fascinating. Fuck Cancer 🙁

  9. God bless her surgeons. I cannot believe she’s back on the job at Gatwick!

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