Inumerable tumors

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    • December 13, 2016 at 6:20 pm
    Shaneswife
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      I finally got a copy of the MRI for husband for the brain and the CT report for the body. It stated both lungs and liver had inumerable tumors. What’s the standard to stop counting? And is inumerable as bad as it gets? They only identified the largest of the tumors in each lung and 2 of the largest in the liver specifically in the report. Every scan has been nothing but more bad news lately.
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        • December 14, 2016 at 5:02 am
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          It sounds scary, but I think melanoma just presents that way  – see this page:

          https://radiopaedia.org/articles/miliary-opacities

          It may not mean that they are hard/impossible to treat, just that they present a certain way (lots of small instead of one or two big tumours).I hope you guys get some good news soon…

          • December 14, 2016 at 5:02 am
          stars
          Participant

            It sounds scary, but I think melanoma just presents that way  – see this page:

            https://radiopaedia.org/articles/miliary-opacities

            It may not mean that they are hard/impossible to treat, just that they present a certain way (lots of small instead of one or two big tumours).I hope you guys get some good news soon…

            • December 14, 2016 at 5:02 am
            stars
            Participant

              It sounds scary, but I think melanoma just presents that way  – see this page:

              https://radiopaedia.org/articles/miliary-opacities

              It may not mean that they are hard/impossible to treat, just that they present a certain way (lots of small instead of one or two big tumours).I hope you guys get some good news soon…

              • December 14, 2016 at 9:06 am
              debwray
              Participant

                Hi,

                My liver tumours were measured similarly. They took the dimensions of the three biggest and location for reference for the next scan , then reported innumerable diffuse metastases greater than 50. Think this is the way they report for comparison purposes and if things are not clear later they would simply put the two scans side by side to compare. If I understand it.. The written report gives the oncologist in words the key info. Using the largest tumours as reference probably minimises measurement errors too when trying to quantify growth or decrease in size.

                Sorry it was more bad news

                Best wishes

                Deb

                • December 14, 2016 at 9:06 am
                debwray
                Participant

                  Hi,

                  My liver tumours were measured similarly. They took the dimensions of the three biggest and location for reference for the next scan , then reported innumerable diffuse metastases greater than 50. Think this is the way they report for comparison purposes and if things are not clear later they would simply put the two scans side by side to compare. If I understand it.. The written report gives the oncologist in words the key info. Using the largest tumours as reference probably minimises measurement errors too when trying to quantify growth or decrease in size.

                  Sorry it was more bad news

                  Best wishes

                  Deb

                  • December 14, 2016 at 9:06 am
                  debwray
                  Participant

                    Hi,

                    My liver tumours were measured similarly. They took the dimensions of the three biggest and location for reference for the next scan , then reported innumerable diffuse metastases greater than 50. Think this is the way they report for comparison purposes and if things are not clear later they would simply put the two scans side by side to compare. If I understand it.. The written report gives the oncologist in words the key info. Using the largest tumours as reference probably minimises measurement errors too when trying to quantify growth or decrease in size.

                    Sorry it was more bad news

                    Best wishes

                    Deb

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