Servival rate of cancer patient

[Najmasultana]

What are the servival rate for a patient with total hysterectomy due to cancer

[Cropcrop]

There are so many contributing factor here, the big one being the individual with the cancer. Statistics are very misleading, nobody really knows who will and who won’t survive because we are all individuals and we don’t all respond in the same way to our various treatments and there are so many variants of each cancer, who knew there were so many different types of ovarian cancer? So I think in a nutshell you can read statistics and scare yourself silly with possibly dodgy information and there’s every chance the information won’t apply to any one person simply because we’re all so very different.

Please don’t read up on survival rates on Google, the information there is so out of date and very generalised and often an average taken across the board. I hope this helps ❤️Xx Jane

[Lyndy]

Well you can look at the statistics which are out of date but even they can’t tell you how long individual OC patients will survive. Sorry if that’s unhelpful but there isn’t an easy answer. What is your situation Najmasultana? You are clearly worried....many on this forum have that experience of that and not knowing what the future holds. Stay strong x

[bamboo89]

It depends; if you want to try to find out, you need to add in more information to your search via Google or with a doctor. If the total hysterectomy was for cancer of the uterus, and that cancer was contained in the uterus and hadn't spread anywhere, then radiation treatment was given, that is a vastly different situation from a cancer which has spread outside the uterus, or started in the ovaries, and required chemotherapy. So if you want to try to find out, you need to be clearer about your exact situation, including the type and stage of the cancer you have/had - and even then, the best person to ask is the doctor dealing with your cancer. You may or may not get an answer though... everyone's different, whatever form of cancer they have. My oncologist told me that some people carry on for years when they never expected them to, but others with what they think is a good prognosis, don't - and 'we have no idea why' to quote his words.

[Di16]

I had a hysterectomy for ovarian cancer 10 years ago. Two years ago, I asked my oncologist if she could give me any idea how long I'd live, & she said she couldn't. One of my cousins lived a shorter time than me after hysterectomy, other people live longer than this. Di

[Najmasultana]

Thanks Di for ur reply