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Tumor Left Overs…

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    • July 16, 2018 at 3:59 am
    brianm
    Participant

      Hi,

      I've had great response to my stage 4 mel.   Al I have left is a 4cm mass in my lung and a very shallow bump on my kidney.  They did a pet scan and the 4mm mass had an SUV of 4.5.   So here is my quesiton.

       

      The 4cm mass used to be over 15 cm and have an SUV of 12.5 and greater.

       

      Have any of you had large tumors that melted away but left some structure?   Does it always show up as active on the pet scan?

       

      I'm only 7 months into my treatment, but it saved my life….

      Thx,

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        • July 16, 2018 at 12:37 pm
        JuTMSY4
        Participant

          Yes – you'll learn it's a far more imperfect science (radiology) that you want it to be:

           

          1) my bone tumors which are very likely dead and rebuilt(ish) still show on CTs

          2) My liver tumors are a big ???  Might be some sort of NAFL – I've been losing weight (on purpose) to see if I can clear that up.  

          3) Certain nodes are always sorta slightly popping – hard to say, but lymph nodes do that.  

          4) It took a long time for everything to get close to a level where the doctor felt the cancer was dying (2 years)?  People react differently – it's just hard to know even with several years of treatment experience in clinical settings.  

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