So! The Radiologist was happy to sit down with me, explain the limitations of the day's image (a fairly raw PET scan intended to be used to evaluate if that tool can be used as any sort of 'early indicator' of drug efficacy), and described and showed me that, within the limitations of the image, nothing much has changed. The good news is, it's not spread or grown. In fact, one small area of fluid accumulation from the last scan (that I hadn't known about) has dissapeared. But, no aparrent shrinkage yet. But again, they wouldn't normally be checking for efficacy yet. That comes next week with a CT scan with the contrast die, which will be much more useful for making measurements and comparisions. So, no change, which fits wiht how I feel; stable.

I'll take it!

Cheers,

-Seth

47 yr old male non-smoker, social drinker, fit. Jan'10, Stg3 rt tonsil+rt neck SCC, HPV+, rad+chmo Vancouver Cda. 2yr clear Apr'12 London UK. Apr'13 mets recur to lymph btw left lung & aorta, 3x Cisplatin+5FUchemo+20 rad, was all clear but 6-mo PET-CT shows mets to pleura around left lung, participating in St 1 trial of GDC-0980. GDC lost effect and ended July'14, bad atrial fibrillation requiring hospitalisation, start more standard chemo 10 Sep 2014.
Sadly has passed away, notified Jan 2015.