Surgery.

• Appointment with Dr. S

The ultrasound confirms the ovarian mass that the ER saw and the blood work shows that my ovarian cancer tumor marker is slightly elevated. Dr. S explains that this marker is not a good diagnostic tool and is often elevated in non-cancerous situations and not elevated in cancerous situations. However, the verdict is that we need to remove the mass. Surgery. Dr. S goes over the recommended surgery with me, we discuss removing the mass (hopefully laproscopically) and we go over having the pathology tests run on a sample during the surgery to see if anything else should be removed. He recommends that I meet with a gyn oncologist, Dr. C, to talk with him about the surgery as well. If the pathology comes back positive for cancer, it would be Dr. C that would then take over the surgery and staging. He mentions that Dr. C's bedside manner is not warm and fuzzy, but that he is a great surgeon and Dr. S says that he would trust his own wife to him. I'm sold. Great surgeon is what we want.