GOOD NEWS: NED

dhs1963
dhs1963 Member Posts: 513
in Kidney Cancer #1

I remain NED, but this time with a caveat.  I do have something growing -- a few items, but it might be an artifact of changing from MRI to CT, said the Dr.  One lymph node has grown over a year from .8 to 1.1 cm; Dr says we won't worry about it until it is bigger, as there are many reasons why it can be 1.1 cm...at 1.5 cm, cancer is likely.  Next scans in Nov.

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  • adman
    adman Member Posts: 336
    #2
    keep the faith....

     

    Wishing you all the best. Stay strong and vigilent. God Bless!

  • todd121
    todd121 Member Posts: 1,448 Member
    #3
    Glad it's good news

    Do you get your CT scans with contrast? Just wondering if they would have picked that small a change up without contrast?

    Todd

  • angec
    angec Member Posts: 924 Member
    #4
    That is great news! I don't

    That is great news! I don't know why the doc would go ahead and say that at 1.5 cm it would deifnitey be cancer.  Sometimes our bodies have silent colds and things going on, nodes can get bigger and still not be cancer.  But the amount it grew is such a small amount that maybe the other test sized it wrong, like he says.  I wouldn't worry about it, that is a great result!  

  • Allochka
    Allochka Member Posts: 1,072 Member
    #5
    angec said:

    That is great news! I don't

    That is great news! I don't know why the doc would go ahead and say that at 1.5 cm it would deifnitey be cancer.  Sometimes our bodies have silent colds and things going on, nodes can get bigger and still not be cancer.  But the amount it grew is such a small amount that maybe the other test sized it wrong, like he says.  I wouldn't worry about it, that is a great result!  

    Great result! Your doc is

    Great result! Your doc is correct about possible differencies in reading due to changed modalities. We've received a second opinion recently from very experienced radiologist, he explained itthe same way. Hard to compare CT to MRI, etc. So no reason to believe smth is wrong yet

  • foxhd
    foxhd Member Posts: 3,181 Member
    #6
    Allochka said:

    Great result! Your doc is

    Great result! Your doc is correct about possible differencies in reading due to changed modalities. We've received a second opinion recently from very experienced radiologist, he explained itthe same way. Hard to compare CT to MRI, etc. So no reason to believe smth is wrong yet

    Great

    to hear! Live on brother!

  • aamdsi
    aamdsi Member Posts: 284
    #7
    NED

    Will celebrate that and worry about the rest later

    yay!!!!!

  • foroughsh
    foroughsh Member Posts: 779 Member
    #8
    I'm very happy for good news.

    I'm very happy for good news. May it never grows anymore and you remain NED.

    Forough

     

  • Jojo61
    Jojo61 Member Posts: 1,309 Member
    #9
    foroughsh said:

    I'm very happy for good news.

    I'm very happy for good news. May it never grows anymore and you remain NED.

    Forough

     

    Sounds pretty good, DHS!

    Sounds pretty good, DHS! Hoping it continues to be good news for you!

    Hugs

    Jojo

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