Moms recidive and chemo

[Inguc_is]

Wanna ask you my mom had ovarian cancer on 2017 stage 2 , operation and 6 chemo, in 2021 mAy recidive with many mtc all around abdominal ca 220, now after 7 chemi ca is 22.5, today we get scan results all mts is died BUT lymph in one place is bigger i am so stressed as chemo is finished but something is left what to do? Do anyone have after chemo some lymph not in good condition?

Answer:Lymphadenopathy persists in the left side of the small pelvis along the left lateral wall of the pelvis, as well as in the blood vessels of the small pelvis, but in other places there are no signs of the spread of the process in the chest, abdominal cavity and retroperitoneal

[Lyndy]

Hello, is your Mum going to have any maintenance treatment? Might be worth asking the oncologist how they plan to manage this lymph node… they may say watch and wait. As long as it isn’t active that might be the best plan xx

[Inguc_is in reply to Lyndy]

Nop in Latvia we dont have so much free medicine :((( that why i think they can offer surgery or sit and wait, i dont is it good result, as before there was all abdomen in mts and other lymph was bigger as normal now only in one place

[delia2]

Hi. I had a large lymph node after chemo which was not cancerous. Over time it got smaller and smaller.

[Inguc_is in reply to delia2]

But how did u get to know that it is not cancerous? They wrote that from 10.08 ( CT after 3rd chemo) there is no dynamic, size is the same after 7th chemo

[delia2]

I had a PET scan and it didn’t light up. A lymph node can be full of junk from all the dead cells caused by chemo.

[Inguc_is in reply to delia2]

Do i understand correct that CT didnt see is it cancerous or not? Is it good sign that they didnt get larger or didnt change size at all before chemo and after or it is bad one sign?

[delia2 in reply to Inguc_is]

Correct. A CT can't tell if something is cancerous or not. Ultimately a biopsy is the definitive tool but my node was inaccessible. I would guess (but am clearly not a doctor) that if it was there before chemo and is still the same the chances are it might not be cancer. I would try to get a PET scan but otherwise just do watch and wait.

[Inguc_is in reply to delia2]

Thank you for hope, will see what will chemotherpist, but i think they will said to wait…