Hello,
I had my 1.5 year scan today, and the great news is that they still haven’t seen any sign of metastatic melanoma. I was a little worried though, when the nurse said she wanted to pull up my scans for the doctor to discuss with me. What he showed me is that there was one “cloudy” area in the lung that was already visible on the last scan 3 months ago, but is a little larger and more visible now. He said it doesn’t at all look like he would expect melanoma to look (although can they really know by looking at a computer screen?), but he said deserves some scrutiny. On the report, it said:
“Ground-glass nodule in the left upper lobe measuring 9 mm in diameter, which could be due to infectious/inflammatory process, or possibly indolent/slow growing primary lung neoplasm.”
Unfortunately, infection doesn’t seem likely to me, since it was there 3 months ago, and I wouldn’t think that would last 3 months. I’ve heard this ground-glass term used a couple of times here, but I thought it was for a dead tumor, which this isn’t, because it seems to be growing, albeit slowly. Anyway, no melanoma, which was the primary concern, and the above obviously doesn’t sound like a “house on fire” situation, but I’m wondering how common/worrisome a “indolent/slow growing primary lung neoplasm” is? Wonder if my immunotherapy could have been keeping it in check. They use those on lung cancer too, right? Anyway, I’ll be very curious for my next scan. Glad I’m in the clinical trial now, because it will only be 3 months, instead of 6.
Ciao.
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