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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Okay.....its been three months since the finish of radiation treatments for my husbands 4th bout with cancer, 3 involving lung......had the pet/ct scan last week.
Docs office called the next day. Their words: "radical shrinkage" "Extremely happy with results" "no further treatment as yet, in three months another pet/ct scan to see how much further its shrunk."
So.......husband was thrilled, thinking the thing was about gone.
Then we got the physical report. Seems the tumor has shrunk......from 5.0x2.9, to 2.9x1.7. Thats about 50%.....and husband is bummed.
I know that it will continue shrinking for a while, and that this is good news, and we should be thankful for this much, but still......
Anyway.......I'm posting this because I've received pm's asking about how things were going, and I want to say I really appreciate the thoughts.  |
Actually, that's quite a bit more than half. My high school geometry is really rusty, but if you decrease the circumference of a sphere by half, you decrease the volume way more than half. It's a cubed function (pi*r)**3.
Edit: As I was leaving this post it hit me. The tumor is one eighth the size it once was.