2 Cancers at once

I tend to almost always have something on one ovary or the other.  Chocolate cysts.  In my case the cyst that forms as part of releasing the mature egg doesn't pop and just continues to grow.  Until it evenually does pop (very painfully) or gets reabsorbed.  Not life-threatening, just a pain.  They started at age 27 and I still get them at age 48.  So far, no cancer there that we know of.  Just tough ovaries that don't want to pop when they should.  I hope you don't have a cyst because they are annoying, but if the alternative is cancer, then let's hope for a cyst.  They show up on my CT scans as a mass on an ovary, the next CT scan it will be resolved but there'll be a mass on the other ovary and so on.  Many people do get ovarian cysts as a one-off. I hope that's you!

Cheers – Maggie

I tend to almost always have something on one ovary or the other.  Chocolate cysts.  In my case the cyst that forms as part of releasing the mature egg doesn't pop and just continues to grow.  Until it evenually does pop (very painfully) or gets reabsorbed.  Not life-threatening, just a pain.  They started at age 27 and I still get them at age 48.  So far, no cancer there that we know of.  Just tough ovaries that don't want to pop when they should.  I hope you don't have a cyst because they are annoying, but if the alternative is cancer, then let's hope for a cyst.  They show up on my CT scans as a mass on an ovary, the next CT scan it will be resolved but there'll be a mass on the other ovary and so on.  Many people do get ovarian cysts as a one-off. I hope that's you!

Cheers – Maggie

I tend to almost always have something on one ovary or the other.  Chocolate cysts.  In my case the cyst that forms as part of releasing the mature egg doesn't pop and just continues to grow.  Until it evenually does pop (very painfully) or gets reabsorbed.  Not life-threatening, just a pain.  They started at age 27 and I still get them at age 48.  So far, no cancer there that we know of.  Just tough ovaries that don't want to pop when they should.  I hope you don't have a cyst because they are annoying, but if the alternative is cancer, then let's hope for a cyst.  They show up on my CT scans as a mass on an ovary, the next CT scan it will be resolved but there'll be a mass on the other ovary and so on.  Many people do get ovarian cysts as a one-off. I hope that's you!

Cheers – Maggie

Maggie's right, chocolate cysts will show up as a mass on a scan. I had the same issue years before I got melanoma when a "pelvic mass" was discovered during a routine exam. If I recall the stats correctly, there was a 75% chance that this mass was benign. I had surgery to remove it and it turned out that the culprit was a chocolate cyst. I had a few of them plus a rather prolific case of endometriosis.

Though melanoma can't be ruled out 100% for you, the finding can defiinitely represent something else.

Maggie's right, chocolate cysts will show up as a mass on a scan. I had the same issue years before I got melanoma when a "pelvic mass" was discovered during a routine exam. If I recall the stats correctly, there was a 75% chance that this mass was benign. I had surgery to remove it and it turned out that the culprit was a chocolate cyst. I had a few of them plus a rather prolific case of endometriosis.

Though melanoma can't be ruled out 100% for you, the finding can defiinitely represent something else.

Maggie's right, chocolate cysts will show up as a mass on a scan. I had the same issue years before I got melanoma when a "pelvic mass" was discovered during a routine exam. If I recall the stats correctly, there was a 75% chance that this mass was benign. I had surgery to remove it and it turned out that the culprit was a chocolate cyst. I had a few of them plus a rather prolific case of endometriosis.

Though melanoma can't be ruled out 100% for you, the finding can defiinitely represent something else.

My metastasis was thought to be a chocolate cyst and once it was removed theyfound it was melanoma.  I then had scans that found melanoma in breast, behind uterus and thyroid cancer.  So yes, you can have two types of cancer at once–and you are excluded from trials if you have a competing cancer–sucks!!

My metastasis was thought to be a chocolate cyst and once it was removed theyfound it was melanoma.  I then had scans that found melanoma in breast, behind uterus and thyroid cancer.  So yes, you can have two types of cancer at once–and you are excluded from trials if you have a competing cancer–sucks!!

My metastasis was thought to be a chocolate cyst and once it was removed theyfound it was melanoma.  I then had scans that found melanoma in breast, behind uterus and thyroid cancer.  So yes, you can have two types of cancer at once–and you are excluded from trials if you have a competing cancer–sucks!!

You never mentioned what type of scan you had done. If you had a PET scan, they sometimes give false positives. Hopefully your doc will follow up with either a CT scan or ultrasound to figure out what's going on.

I know this is hard, but try to hang in there. Am keeping my fingers crossed for you that it's just a regular old garden-variety ovarian cyst, chocolate or otherwise.

You never mentioned what type of scan you had done. If you had a PET scan, they sometimes give false positives. Hopefully your doc will follow up with either a CT scan or ultrasound to figure out what's going on.

I know this is hard, but try to hang in there. Am keeping my fingers crossed for you that it's just a regular old garden-variety ovarian cyst, chocolate or otherwise.

You never mentioned what type of scan you had done. If you had a PET scan, they sometimes give false positives. Hopefully your doc will follow up with either a CT scan or ultrasound to figure out what's going on.

I know this is hard, but try to hang in there. Am keeping my fingers crossed for you that it's just a regular old garden-variety ovarian cyst, chocolate or otherwise.