After losing her mother to ovarian cancer and her sister to breast cancer, Cheryl learned she carries a BRCA1 gene mutation and had preventive surgeries to lower her risk. Years later, despite having no ovaries, sudden pain led to a diagnosis of ovarian cancer after scans revealed 27 tumors and doctors staged her at 3C.
Thank you, Cheryl for sharing your story to help others.
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Chapters:
00:00 – BRCA1 Positive: Genetic Testing and Preventive Surgery
00:46 – Diagnosed With Ovarian Cancer Despite Having No Ovaries
01:41 – Telling Her Family She Has Ovarian Cancer
03:12 – Stage 3C Diagnosis and Surgery to Remove 27 Tumors
07:45 – Chemotherapy, Depression, and Navigating Ovarian Cancer Treatment
09:53 – Ovarian Cancer Recurrence – I will be on chemotherapy “for the rest of my life”
15:47 – Living With Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer: Her Advice for Fighting “You are not alone”
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Cheryl, you're a beautiful, strong, charming woman.
Thank you for sharing your story and educating all of us. Life can be so unfair. My friend is battling pancreatic cancer. It's so hard. God bless you dear, and let's all keep praying for better treatment and hopefully, one day, a cure! ❤
God Bless 🙌🏾 🙏🏾 this lady and her care team.
Brave and down to earth….great person❤️
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CHERYL, thank you for sharing your story & articulating your experience so well. Very eye opening to learn that preventative surgical approaches still led to this diagnosis. I will definitely keep your story in mind when advocating for myself, having a family history of breast cancer and my own complete hysterectomy due to adenomyosis. So grateful for this channel sharing stories, hope, and resources with the world!
That happens to some women who get their breast removed because their mom had breast cancer and they end up with breast cancer in what is left behind
My goodness, what a beautiful lady inside and out. It radiates from her, this glowing light, you rarely see or sense that in people – it has really struck me, as I see it has others in the comments. I send you so much love, strength, belief and protection. I pray for you to be able to enjoy so much good that lies in front of you. 🙏🏻🏹💗🌻🪩🌹🌼💞♥️
Mindset is so important! I feel some type of way that doctors give death sentences when they don't know how long someone will live because once you tell a person that, some completely lose hope. She has such a great attitude in spite of what she is enduring.
Prayer ascending for you. My Our Lord bless you with healing & strength. 🙏 Blessings to you and your family. You are an beautiful and amazing woman. ❤💐
You Rock!
You’re giving people hope !
Sending you love and best wishes from Europe ❤❤❤
What a nice lady and so positive. Prayers for her. ❤🙏🏻
Hello Cheryl, you articulated your experience so well. The fatigue is no joke. I am wishing for you continued strength, peace, support, love, and healing.
My heart aches for you 😢😮am so sorry.
You and your children are gorgeous and your personality is so magnetic. I'm praying for you to beat this!
Do you know what o dont hear were is God in this i hhad a5cm ti.our on my toungue refused the 6hr operation Chemo and rafiatoon i dont man made medcines i take herbs fasting prayer 247 and trustinf God the healer i had a growth on my neck caused by allowing them to cut my toungue foe testing that growth had caused me so much pain but for mr no morpin or medicines that shut my immune down the growth on my neck is now shrinking behaving like boil a lot of stuff cpming out but the tumour shrunk months ago fro.m tongue never do biospe it spreads cancwr when they removed hrr ovaries they did not freeze her womb to stop cancer escaping God bless her for me its God its 1yr this month pyschal i have not bren ill one day to God all the Glory be
First off you are absolutely beautiful. This is one of the most well told experiences that I’ve watched on The Patient Story channel. Very informative and inspiring. I wish you all the best.
What a beautiful lady you are! I pray for you and your family and send you lots of strength and luck. Warm regards from the Netherlands.❤
You seem to be a wonderful woman 😊 You are in my thoughts ❤
I have stage 3b cholangiocarcinoma and you described the feeling of fatigue better than I have ever heard it, thank you! If you ever find yourself in Maine I would love to meet you because this video gave me new hope. 🥲😊💗
God bless you madam with a full healing
You are so beautiful and strong. The way you're explaining how all of this God awful disease, is wonderful. You're a very good speaker. I understand the fatigue that you have gone through and are going through to an extent, but you never fully understand until you go through it yourself. 3 of my 4 siblings all passed from cancers. I tested positive for mutant gene DDX41 and type of Leukemia. If I end up with Leukemia or any cancer I really hope I can be as strong as my family was. 😊❤️🇨🇦🫂
This story hits close to home in so many ways. Although I’m not a BRCA carrier, 20 years ago I was diagnosed with stage 3c ovarian cancer and had chemo and radiation. Your descriptions are spot on – and I’m sorry the same chemo drugs are still being used as line 1 treatments. In 2024, I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer – completely unrelated. I hurt for you. All I can do is send light and love. Sincerely. To you and your wonderful kids. 🩵
What a wonderful lady! Prayers for Ms. Cheryl.
Keep on keeping on beautiful lady ❤❤❤❤❤❤
My sister has stage 4 Breast cancer as diagnosis with mets to lymph nodes, diabetes/stroke and later developed a rare form call Medullary thyroid cancer,she have just 2 years to live and she never been this scared to die, she just 37, i cry everyday wishing for a miracle to happen. i don't know why I'm saying this here. put me in your prayers.
Such a beautiful lady with beautiful children. May God bless her and keep her always 💕
Lord I pray for complete healing in Cheryl’s body in JESUS NAME 🙌🏼.
Wow – The genetics in your family are strong for cancer! I’m hoping all of the younger generations of women coming behind you are getting checked early for these mutations. The whole situation stinks! You are a true warrior. ❤
Sending prayers.
Watching this on the 24th anniversary of my best friend’s death from breast and ovarian cancer. May this brave woman and her family find peace. Cancer sucks.🙏🏾💔