This is my first time on something like this. My husband was digonsed with hodgkins stage 3b nov of 06. At first they thought it was just in the neck and would only do 3 cycle of treatment. after the scans they told us the mass in the neck was about 6cm, 12cm mass in stermun, in the diaphragm and spots in the spleen. after 6mths of abvd and 30 rad. session in july he was told he was in remission x. the doctor said x because the mass in his chest is still 7cm but no active lymph nodes?
he had one pet scan at the end of august and they said everything looked like the last scan. but i am worried we are going for his 4mth check up and all they ordered was a chest x-ray. will that show anything if he had radition there? they did blood work too but that did not show anything first time round either. the reason i am worried is because in early october he start with the cough again( main symptom from before) and now his lower legs, feet and arms are itching like crazy (i read this can be symptom as well). as well he is back at the same weight he was when digonsed.
should i be worried? could the cancer becoming back? will a chest x-ray show anything? i love him dearly.his family and i were quite upset at first because he had all the symptoms for about a year before he finally went to see a doctor and i see him brushing all the same signs off again.
any comments would help. thanks for reading
(sorry for spelling errors)