I picked up some old post from my old house today, and there was a letter from the Royal Marsden after my third cycle of chemo.  It talked about the results of my PET scans: “The results of the PET CT scan prior to the 3^rd cycle showed a favourable response to treatment by both PET and CT criteria with however persisting active disease with residual mediastinal mass and small volume supraclavicular, sub pectoral and hilar adenopathy.”  Adenopathy means ‘the abnormal enlargement of lymph nodes’, and mediastinal refers to the area in my chest where the mass is.

I liked the bit ‘favourable response’, but I did not like the sound of ‘persisting active disease’… Does it mean the cancer is still active?  I suppose it is, until it has completely been zapped?