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3 year scan results
Got my scan results back today, it's been 3 years and 1 month and I'm still NED. The false positive that I had on my ovary 6 months ago has resolved itself. I do have a few scattered lung nodules that I have have had from the beginning but they not changed and were not PET positive, the two spots on my liver haven't changed since diagnosis, they were not PET positive and are now pretty much confirmed hymangiomas. My Oncologist told me again that he now is seriously believing that my original lung mets diagnosis may have been a false positive also. The 2 lung mets that lit up were so small and had a very low SUV intake, they were too small to biopsy. So we just treated them as if they were there which has given me the benefit of lifetime herceptin. He told me that he really thinks that if I were metastatic, something would have reared its ugly head by now. I sure do hope and pray this is the case but I am almost afraid to get comfortable, which I never will be. So much of this cancer thing is just a wait and see, it is so hard not knowing what actually is and what is not and what is coming. Well, at least I get another 6 months to breathe easier...sherryg683
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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!
Last edited by Sherryg683; 01-09-2009 at 10:09 PM..
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