One year scan results

Anxiety is normal.  But try not to worry.  My 1.5 year scans are January 18, results January 22.  I have been having pain on the side of my incision.  Anxiety is there, and I am worried. 

marosa said:

Hi Andy

Hi Andy!  It's a no-no to worry just having had your check-up!  If your Doctor felt it wasn't anything to worry about, try not worrying and save it for the next check-up!  I only say this because I know we all get scanxiety and all kinds of "Xieties" just before our check-ups.  I had mine 2 months ago and there was something similar to whatt they told you and I was told not to worry and I've been doing a not so bad job about it!  Please relax.

Positive_Mental, is it pain or more like a tighness and soreness on that side?  I have this sometimes when Im very tired or the weather is too humid. Wishing you a NED results on your coming scans.

Andy, it seems that anxiety is unavoidable, but hopefully it will be short-lived.

Could this focus in liver be a cyst, for example? Very frequent finding, We had similar situation with my partner - on later scans a cyst appeared, I was worried about mets, but it was confirmed to be a cyst, which was always present, simply not described on earlier scans as clinically not important.

Kidney cancer is a slow growing bugger.  If your doctor does not seem worried... then why would you worry?  I worry when my Doctor is worried.... he knows more than me about this stuff.  (if not I'm going to fire him)

Although I am learning... a lot... and my Oncologist knows that now.  I am a Smart Patient after all... and I know all these kidney cancer people and their drugs, sympltoms, treatments, just everything thanks to this site, and Smart Patients too.  

I learned nobody gets excited untill what they look at is in cenimeter range.  a 3mm focus of LOW density is like a star twinkle .... they notice, and get excited at a full moon.  Relax, breathe deep, and sleep good.  You have lots of time for the focus to disappear or not.... 

Pam

And yours  is a cutsey tiney itsu bitsy lumpy thing. The docs will sort it out

You shoulds worry about scarey words

Andy,  I too had a T1B grade 3 tumor.  Mine was removed in October 2013 and so far I have been NED.  After my intial diagnosis they discovered a cyst in my liver (roughly 1cm)  and a smaller cyst on my remaining kidney.  Both were judged at the time to be too small for conculsive classification, but probable cyst.  In the last two years the liver cyst has remained the same and the kidney cyst has grown slightly. I will be getting a CT tomorrow; the first I have had with IVP contrast since early 2014.  Anyway I get your concern, but I have read and I have been told by multiple doctors that such cyst are common and normal.  One thing you will find if you stay around here, there are a lot fine folks and some great insight on staying positive. 

Cheers ,  Skagway

I discovered an easy way to avoid the scanxiety. Avoid the scans. Obviously this is not an option for many of us. But my spot of cancer was a little old T1a G2 thing, so my surgeon told me I wouldn't need any further scans or follow up unless I had some symptoms that warranted it. Of course at the time I thought he was a quack when he told me that. Since everyone on here was talking about their follow up scans and T1a G2 still sounded scarey to me. I found me an oncologist that agreed to do annual chest ct scans. Then a funny thing happened as I waited for that first year. I came to understand my cancer and lost all the fear of it. When it came time for my first follow up scan I called them up and canceled. I really feel I don't need the follow ups or associated worry. I worry enough as it is about other things.