I'm down to just getting a yearly chest X-ray as a monitoring measure.
Thanks and I was just curious. I wish you could get re-tested for the CA+ autoantibody in the future.
I did a lung cat scan in 2015 (pre knowing I had the CA+ autoantibody), then I did the second one approx one year later in 2016 (post learning about the autoantibody) which was much better quality/resolution than the first and showed lung nodules.
Then I did the third one approx one year later in 2017 and the nodules had remained identical and super tiny (like 2 mm). They had not grown, and there were no additional nodules, and were considered an "incidental finding" that had nothing to do w/the autoantibody. My main doctor does not think I need to do one annually but we'll decide mid 2018 if it is worth the radiation since SCLC is a fast, aggressive cancer that is usually fatal if not caught early.
He feels (as does my auto-antibody group) that the people who end up with SCLC from the CA+ autoantibody often only have this one auto-antibody vs. people like me with eleven known auto-antibodies (and most likely even more) are less likely to get SCLC vs. have all kinds of dysautonomia and random symptoms caused by an overall state of autoimmune chaos.