Am I crazy to keep my ovaries

[LeahM]

Hi All,

I am going to try to keep a long story short...

In my family only one other woman on my mothers side had BC. My grandmother. Age about 50 had a mastectomy and rads (don't know if she had hormone suppressors or not) and live another 30+ years. During that times she had a complete hysterectomy (for unkown reason) and they found cancer in her uterus. Once the uterus was out so was the cancer..no treatment.

My mom, her aunts, cousins etc all had complete hysterectomies before the age of 40 for reasons not related to cancer. And thus far none of them have had cancer of any type.

So I worry about my uterus. I'm BRCA 1,2 negative.

5% ER+. My onc told me that 15 years ago they would have considered me ER-. I'm on Tamoxifen and don't have any problems with it.

I have discussed at length with my GYN (who I credit with saving my life) the pros and cons of a complete hysterectomy at this point.

IMHO the cons outweigh the pros.

But she wants to take my uterus out.

Says Tamox increases your risk of uterine CA and I have had some crazy crazy crazy periods since it came back. I have had uterine u/s because of that but nothing has been seen. I can go months without a period and then bleed for 3. solid. weeks. 3!!

She says taking out my uterus will stop my periods (yay) without putting me into early menopause (again yay).

Throughout this time of mine spent in cancerland my ER status hasn't been a huge concern of mine, not as huge as my HER2 status.

So I have agreed to remove my uterus...early in 2015 and keep my ovaries (for now). I'm hoping I don't regret this in another 15 years.

Has anyone else had just their uterus removed? Do you think I'm off my rocker for keeping my ovaries?

Your thoughts on this are very welcome.
Thanks
Leah