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Our story and a question

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    • January 20, 2019 at 12:03 pm
    space oddity
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      Hello beautiful people, I am new here although I have been eagerly reading your posts for the past three years and this forum has been a tremendous help to our fight, in many ways.

      My husband's fight with melanoma began in 2014. We live in a Greek island and the sun appeared to only be a good friend here, sunscreen was  an unknown word for locals who want to fish and enjoy the sea. He had a mole on his back that started bleeding in 2014 and it was melanoma. Surgery followed, margins and nodes clear. In 2016 two in transit lymph nodes were removed. Started Yervoy, failed, Taf+Mek followed, worked for about a year and he is now on Keytruda for about 8 months . He is perfectly well, no side effects and stable- not NED.My question is: he has two small stable in transit  lymph nodes, the biggest of which (9 mm) has been exactly the same size since 2016. Could this mean it is inactive or just dead cells? Isn't it strange that it hasn't changed a bit for so long- never bigger, never smaller? 

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