The "madness" of unnecessary hysterectomy has to stop

[DFW]

4. With my wife, it was cancer, plain and simple

She had already had cancer once (breast cancer in 2001), so she went in for frequent checkups. In late 2016, one showed three spots on her uterus. The gynecologist said it was probably nothing, but with her history, it was better to biopsy all three. Two were nothing, and the third one was an uncommon form of cancer known as "der Mörder," or "the murderer." It strikes women who are aged or women who are very slender, which my wife is. It is practically always fatal, hence its name. The oncologist told us he had horrible news and maybe good news. He was frank about the seriousness of her ailment, but also said he had NEVER caught it this early. She went through a brutal five-and-a-half hour operation. They took out uterus, ovaries, and more. It was very painful, and she was in the hospital for nearly two weeks. The good news was that his optimism over the early diagnosis was justified. Of 84 biopsies they did, ALL of them were negative. The surgeon said he had NEVER seen that before, and it was the first time he had ever recommended against chemo. He said it was a risk not to do it, but he thought in her case, they had gotten it all--that one in ten thousand cases. Having suffered chemo with her breast cancer, my wife opted to risk foregoing it.

That was five years ago, and she has had no recurrence. We had our "month later" check-up and meeting with the surgeon, and he just gaped when he saw my wife, saying he had never seen anyone bounce back to that extent from such a brutal operation before. If there is only going to be one in ten thousand women that manages to do that, I am going to be very selfish and be happy she was the one.