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    • May 22, 2019 at 1:05 am
    Carlsbad317
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      New scan was done yesterday – appoint with onco on Friday. Third treatment of ipi/nivo with chaser of inflixmaub scheduled on June 3rd.

      Impressions:
      Increased uptake and sizeof dominant FDG avid aright axillary nodal metastasis. Slightly increased size of additional sub-centimeter right axillary metastases.

      Increased diffuse splenic uptake compared to liver background activity, consistent with reactive hyperplasia.

      Size of Mass then and now-
      3/12: 4 x 5 x 6.5 cm isolated hyper metabolic right axillary mass with SUV 13.5
      5/19: 5.9 x 8.3 cm with SUV 24

      Slightly increased size of right axillary node, .7 cm previously .5 cm

      Will update later this week if the plan stays on course! Crazy part of all found out the appendix is within the right inguinal hernia – new finding…..

      Prayers to all!

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