Step-on-me vs. Ovarian Cancer

Stephanie's surgery went very well yesterday afternoon.  It lasted about 2 hours and we arrived in her room at around 6:30 last night.  The biggest struggle for her so far is post operative nausea, which is to be expected. The doctor was able to do the entire surgery laparoscopically, which is completed without having to make major incisions.  Instead, she has 3 smaller incisions: 2 on her stomach and one in her side.  As expected, the mass was very small and the doctors were able to remove only a small portion of her kidney with the mass.  They placed a "JP Drain" which looks like a little grenade that you squeeze to create suction pressure in the would and it removes blood and fluid around the surgical site. The doctor confirmed that the mass looks malignant but he will not know with certainty what it is until pathologists disect and analyze the mass.  Fortunately, if it is malignant, the treatment/cure for most common kidney cancers is removal.  He said that there

Back in September 2014 when Stephanie was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer, her doctors also found a small mass on her right kidney.  Obviously they decided to deal with the Ovarian Cancer first and recommended that the mass on her kidney be revisited in late 2015.  Fast forward to now and her Urologist Oncologist recommends that this mass is removed.   Today Stephanie is having what they call a partial nephrectomy which is basically a partial removal of her kidney.  So today on her 31st birthday, Steph is having surgery and will be spending the next few days in the hospital recovering.   Here are a few questions we had about the mass that will probably answer some of the questions you have.... What could this mass be? We learned on Friday that a mass on the kidney of this nature has an 80% chance of being cancerous... Yes cancerous. Could this be ovarian cancer that spread to her kidney? There is very little chance that this mass is related to her ovarian cancer.