Dale,

"Hope" is the byword of all cancer survivors. I was diagnosed with Stage 2b in June 2018 and it became Stage 4 when it metastasized to my brain in 2020. I've had a node grow by 50% in 3 months. 3 months after that, it had shrunk to even smaller than it's originally detected size. Why did it grow that much that fast? No one knows. But it happens. We've continued to watch that node, and a few others, and they consistently do nothing.

From my perspective, if I haven't had a definitive diagnosis of cancer, then I don't have it. I've been cancer-free for most of my last 7 years. I'm still working full-time as a rocket engineer at NASA and judging BBQ on the side. Try to follow Henry David Thoreau's advice when he said, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." I wish you all the best!