Hi folks! I’ve just recently joined the club. To say I’m shocked is an understatement as i have no symptoms at all. It was picked up on my routine smear, then a punch biopsy.
I spoke with the specialist nurse last week to chase up my mri and low and behold i got my appointment the very next day. Results will go to the panel next Wed.
What is worrying me is (along with everything else) is that so fars its Stage 1, which is good. But the cells have been graded 3! As far as i know, these cells are faster growing and I’m worryied things are taking too long. I waited 9 weeks for the punch biopsy results.
Has anyone had the same worries? The nurse is predicting a radical hysterectomy with lymph node removal. How effective will this be? Will i need further treatment after surgery? Is it likely to come back as the cells are grade 3? God I’m at my whitts end with worry 
Yes, Grade 3 means the cells are faster growing, but a few weeks is unlikely to make any difference to your staging. Well done for getting the MRI moved forwards. The most important thing now is for you to be staged correctly, so that the correct treatment is chosen. This is essential and more important than speed of treatment. If there is any chance that you are a higher stage and the cancer has moved outside the primary tumour this could change the staging and treatment. Hang on in there, and it will get sorted. Nice of the nurse to make a prediction, but it will be the gynae oncologist who will decide the treatment once scans are complete. They MAY want another scan (PET) so be prepared for that. I had several scans and got regraded from Stage 1 to Stage 3, but that is unusual. But I’m so glad I got regraded, because if they had done a hysterectomy when it had actually spread, I could be looking at it metastasising further. So I was grateful for the scans! We’ll keep everything crossed for you that it’s stage 1 and can get sorted quickly. Xx
