I completed chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. no cancer was detected in followup tests. am i still at risk for cancer? #nqlu my chemotherapy started last sept. and ended in early jan. last nov., i had surgery (hysterectomy). i have since had clean reading

Congratulations : Congratulations on doing well thus far! everything you listed sounds like good news. I can tell you that the overall 5 year survival rate for all ovarian cancers is 47%, but if it was caught in the early stages and the cancer was only in the primary site, the five year survival is 92%. You should talk with your oncologist about your prognosis. By knowing your staging, genetic markers, tumor histology, aggressiveness of your cancer, details about your surgery and treatment, and tumor response, they may be able to give you a more accurate prognosis. In general, people are not considered "cured" until they have 5 years of being cancer-free, but every day without cancer is fantastic.

Yes, you are.: You are always at a risk of your cancer returning. The higher your stage, the higher the risk. The goal of chemotherapy is to kill any cells that were not removed by surgery. Hopefully that worked and got every last cancer cell, but ovarian cancer has a nasty tendency to come back. Go here for the statistics: http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/ovary.html

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