The last time I dropped in this forum I was waiting for an upcoming biopsy of chest lymph nodes that lit up on my PET scan. That was last Thursday, 4/6. Today I saw my oncologist and got the results.
The news was neither as good as I had hoped nor as bad as I feared. Most of the lymph nodes that were biopsied showed inflammation and scar tissue buildup that my doctor said could be coming from my continuing treatment with Keytruda. But one lymph node, the hilar node, was positive for a "small atypical collection of pigmented cells."
Since the skin lesions and lung nodules we have been monitoring for almost two years now were inactive on the PET, my oncologist said that the Keytruda is working, but it "needs some help." So next week I will be seeing the radiation oncologist to add radiation to continuing treatment with Keytruda.
This isn't the best news possible, obviously, but it isn't terrible news either, and just knowing the way forward now has lifted a huge weight off my shoulders.
-Bill
