This is for Footballer redux

Dear Footballer,
Thank you so much for your detailed answer of the other day. I apologize for having taken some time to express my gratitude; I've been spending my days in IRMs and CAT-scan machines. Again, thank you for having taken the time and the trouble to inform someone you don't even know. *Hugs*

[xrayu2]

I read you question about lytic lesions in sacral area.  I had not heard of ovarian cancer spreading to bone.  So, i asked an oncologist where I worked and he said a few types of ovarian cancer can spread to the bone, but that is not its chosen path.  He said its usually breast, lung, colon, prostate.  Hes said if research would be done, the kinds of ovarian that spread are linked to the hereditary forms that also cause breast and colon cancer.  I learned someting too.  So here is your answer.

[LitDoc]

Dear X --
Thanks for having asked. I really don't even know if we have that gene in my family or not, since my paternal grandmother died of 'something in the stomach,' but nobody seems to know exactly what. My father died of cancer of the prostate, but he was 80. Nobody has ever had breast cancer to my knowledge, or ovarian cancer either ... until perhaps now. Very odd.
Thanks again!

[LitDoc]

Yes, when they did the CAT-scan for the suspected OVCA, they found one 5-cm lytic lesion in the sacrum. God oly knows where it came from.

What about you?

[xrayu2]

I'm not sure if all like that are hereditary but usually are the kinds if you breast and end up with colon, too or have ovarian and end up with breast or colon.  It is so weird how each cancer takes on its own path..  Do you have lytic lesions?  I am not familiar with your history because I have not been around alot lately to read and post

[LitDoc]

Good grief, Basketballer, I must have a cyst on the brain. My apologies! If it is any consolation, I've been called LilDoc instead of LitDoc, but I accept the alternative since I'm only 5'2". So I guess I'm a LilLitDoc. However, you are not a Footballer. I am SO sorry!
Annette