Re: Dear God...this is getting old...

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Thanks Dave,

I did read the study and in part, that's why I am not freaking out. I have also

been through the cancer scare before with this disease without enlarged lymph

nodes, only the last time it turned out I had severe B-12 def.

I just like being very informed, because quite frankly, I don't think many

doctors are, and thus far my body has not done much that the " text books "

indicate that it should. I have been trying to find out if there have been any

studies indicating any point in which there is a size that a lymph node does

indicate or has a higher incidence of being problematic, but thus far I cannot

find any studies containing such information.

Sometime I think I would be better off not thinking, but then I change my mind

as being an informed consumer has saved my butt many times.

Again thanks for sharing the article and any other information you may have on

this topic would be appriciated.

Dawn

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> Dear Dawn and Don;

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> Sorry to hear about your problems of enlarged lymph nodes. But it's worth

noting again that enlarged lymph nodes around the liver are not uncommon in PSC.

The following study says that they found enlarged lymph nodes (lymphadenopathy)

around the liver in 66% of PSC patients, and that the presence of

lymphadenopathy is not associated with the development of cholangiocarcinoma.

They also conclude that the presence of enlarged lymph nodes should not be used

as an exclusion criterion for liver transplantation.

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> http://bjr.birjournals.org/cgi/reprint/71/852/1279.pdf

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> I'll keep my fingers crossed that yours will both be benign.

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> Best regards,

>

> Dave

> (father of (23); PSC 07/03; UC 08/03)

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