Simon is now 3 weeks post treatment. The external radiation burns have healed and his ENT has scoped down his throat and said it looks very good.

He has asked the ENT about the scanning schedule, and she has said a PET scan 12 weeks after rads finish, and there-on just visual/scope down the throat examination by her. What if a tumour is growing inside tissue where she can't see it? How do things like that get picked up or do they only get picked up once they start to bulge? She also said you'll know if you've got a recurrance when you get discomfort.

She says the PET will only pick up something at least 1 cm and that the scans are damaging anyway.

I notice on many people's signature they seem to have annual PET scans. Can anyone advise me?