I saw my oncologist yesterday and had pretty positive results for the scans I had on Monday. I am now over two years in remission, but for over a year of that there's been some medium SUV readings in my neck/throat area. The first time coincided with a bad lung scan, and all of it seemed related to a horrible bout of some flulike thing I had for weeks and weeks. That was sometime in January of 2010. Things have been better on all my scans since then, but there's always a little something lighting up in that area.
I saw my oncologist yesterday and had pretty positive results for the scans I had on Monday. I am now over two years in remission, but for over a year of that there's been some medium SUV readings in my neck/throat area. The first time coincided with a bad lung scan, and all of it seemed related to a horrible bout of some flulike thing I had for weeks and weeks. That was sometime in January of 2010. Things have been better on all my scans since then, but there's always a little something lighting up in that area.
This scan, the SUV is actually lower, at 5.4 than the last scan (in Jan it was 6.1) but it has grown from 14 mm to 2 cm. They don't call this a mass or tumor, but refer to it as 'a fullness in the left tonsillar region which may be malignant'
So I'm going to see an ENT, maybe have a biopsy, maybe have a tonsillectomy, maybe neither..who knows. With my history I can't ignore the recommendation but neither my oncologist nor I really believe this to be melanoma. And no other signs of subQs or organ involvement, chest, pelvis, abdomen and extremeties all clear.
Oh! and I convinced him that we can go out to 6 month scans! it will be nice not having to do all of that again for another 6 months. Now I just want them to deal with the throat thing in a timely manner so that I can be singing in time for festival season.
dian in spokane
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