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Sherryg683 · 01-03-2007, 08:44 PM

If she goes for scans and they come back clean in all areas, then she is NED. She has already got the worst of it beaten down..with her lungs clear and her liver almost gone. Most of us have some lymph nodes that were positive at one time. I had 13+...they were pretty easy to take care of. Lymph nodes act as a filtering device to catch the cancer before it spreads (like a spider wed catching a spider). Of course, once it spreads theres a chance it will come back..but you have to take it one step at a time..sherryg683

01-03-2007, 08:44 PM	#2
Sherryg683 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,014	If she goes for scans and they come back clean in all areas, then she is NED. She has already got the worst of it beaten down..with her lungs clear and her liver almost gone. Most of us have some lymph nodes that were positive at one time. I had 13+...they were pretty easy to take care of. Lymph nodes act as a filtering device to catch the cancer before it spreads (like a spider wed catching a spider). Of course, once it spreads theres a chance it will come back..but you have to take it one step at a time..sherryg683 __________________ Sherry Diagnosed: December , 2005 at age 44 13+ positive lymph nodes Stage IV , Her2+, 2 small mets to lungsChemo Started: Jan, 2006 4 months Taxotere, Xeloda, Hercepin NED since April 2006!! 36 Rads to follow with weekly Herceptin indefinately 8 years NED now Scans every year Life is not about avoiding the thunderstorms, it's about learning to dance in the rain!