 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | My RO and MO typically don't order CT scans for followup, preferring MRI's instead, although I was getting an annual chest x-ray (I have doubts how worthwhile they really are but they are recommended in the NCCN oncology guidelines).
I had a brief scare and got a spiral CT a few years back, which is the highest resolution image for the lungs, but it also has the highest radiation of any scan.
Be careful what you wish for, IMO, socialized medicine is not the answer. Do we really want to have the same crappy health care system that they have in the UK or Canada? I think not. The "good" socialized medicine, like they have in Sweden, has an astronomical tax rate.
Last edited by Gary; 02-25-2011 07:40 AM.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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