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- November 3, 2016 at 2:17 pm
While I was having my 4th Ipi infusion yesterday, my husband went down to pick up the CD and radiologist report from Monday's CT scans. In June, my PET/CT was perfectly normal so everything except the right axilliary is new.
Right Axilliary: soft tissue thickening is more pronounced than in previous scan. Possible scarring or post surgical change but could be infectious, inflammatory or neoplastic.
Right Breast: soft tissue thickening 1cm. Could be infectious, inflammatory or neoplastic.
Right Thyroid Lobe: 0.8cm x 0.4cm focus of low density.
Left Lung: 2 pulmonary nodules, 2mm & 4mm
Right Lung: 3 pulmonary nodules, 2mm, 2mm & 3mm
I have a call in to my oncologist to discuss these findings and find out if further tests should be done before I see her on 11/17.
Yikes!
Ann
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- November 3, 2016 at 2:54 pm
I'm just going to leave a little DAMN IT right here. So sorry you didn't get an "all clear". On a (sort of) more positive note…… props to the radiologists who must be very diligently reading your scans. 2mm nodules are preeeeetty tiny, and sometimes tough to differentiate from arteries. With "infections, inflammatory" as possibilities on the breast tissue and right axilliary, I wonder if the lung nodules may also be infectious in nature??? I wonder how clear the differences would be in shape, density, etc. when they're still so small. I guess this is why we have radiologists and oncologists to help us weed through the diagnosis.
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- November 3, 2016 at 2:54 pm
I'm just going to leave a little DAMN IT right here. So sorry you didn't get an "all clear". On a (sort of) more positive note…… props to the radiologists who must be very diligently reading your scans. 2mm nodules are preeeeetty tiny, and sometimes tough to differentiate from arteries. With "infections, inflammatory" as possibilities on the breast tissue and right axilliary, I wonder if the lung nodules may also be infectious in nature??? I wonder how clear the differences would be in shape, density, etc. when they're still so small. I guess this is why we have radiologists and oncologists to help us weed through the diagnosis.
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- November 3, 2016 at 2:54 pm
I'm just going to leave a little DAMN IT right here. So sorry you didn't get an "all clear". On a (sort of) more positive note…… props to the radiologists who must be very diligently reading your scans. 2mm nodules are preeeeetty tiny, and sometimes tough to differentiate from arteries. With "infections, inflammatory" as possibilities on the breast tissue and right axilliary, I wonder if the lung nodules may also be infectious in nature??? I wonder how clear the differences would be in shape, density, etc. when they're still so small. I guess this is why we have radiologists and oncologists to help us weed through the diagnosis.
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- November 3, 2016 at 2:54 pm
Sorry, Ann. Seeing all that in print is pretty scary!!! Hang in there. Scans tell us lots of things…some significant….some not. I've learned more about my insides than I ever wanted to know….stuff I'd never know I had without repeated scans for melanoma and lung nodules can show up for many reasons, even as a side effects from immunotherapy. Still….get some good answers from your onc, hang tough, and keep us posted. I wish you my very best. Celeste
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- November 3, 2016 at 2:54 pm
Sorry, Ann. Seeing all that in print is pretty scary!!! Hang in there. Scans tell us lots of things…some significant….some not. I've learned more about my insides than I ever wanted to know….stuff I'd never know I had without repeated scans for melanoma and lung nodules can show up for many reasons, even as a side effects from immunotherapy. Still….get some good answers from your onc, hang tough, and keep us posted. I wish you my very best. Celeste
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- November 3, 2016 at 2:54 pm
Sorry, Ann. Seeing all that in print is pretty scary!!! Hang in there. Scans tell us lots of things…some significant….some not. I've learned more about my insides than I ever wanted to know….stuff I'd never know I had without repeated scans for melanoma and lung nodules can show up for many reasons, even as a side effects from immunotherapy. Still….get some good answers from your onc, hang tough, and keep us posted. I wish you my very best. Celeste
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- November 4, 2016 at 8:11 am
Thank you Niki & Celeste.
My Oncologist ordered an ultrasound of the Thyroid and a mammogram. Ignoring lung nodules right now as they're too small to do anything with anyway.
Ann
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- November 6, 2016 at 8:46 am
Oh Ann, that's kind of icky. You have definitely made me a bit more nervous for my up coming scan.
I think we will need to think of something to really dress up your chicken. My boyfriend knows how to make a mean chicken soup, best I have ever tasted, all from scratch, even the base. But it means you gotta start saving your chicken bones. ๐
Best of luck to you and hears hoping it's just the ipi causing some inflation or something simple like that.
April
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- November 6, 2016 at 8:46 am
Oh Ann, that's kind of icky. You have definitely made me a bit more nervous for my up coming scan.
I think we will need to think of something to really dress up your chicken. My boyfriend knows how to make a mean chicken soup, best I have ever tasted, all from scratch, even the base. But it means you gotta start saving your chicken bones. ๐
Best of luck to you and hears hoping it's just the ipi causing some inflation or something simple like that.
April
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- November 6, 2016 at 8:46 am
Oh Ann, that's kind of icky. You have definitely made me a bit more nervous for my up coming scan.
I think we will need to think of something to really dress up your chicken. My boyfriend knows how to make a mean chicken soup, best I have ever tasted, all from scratch, even the base. But it means you gotta start saving your chicken bones. ๐
Best of luck to you and hears hoping it's just the ipi causing some inflation or something simple like that.
April
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