 "OCF Canuck" Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 5,260 Likes: 3 | False positives happen a lot. Scans pick up areas of high metabolic activity. Healing areas, inflamed areas, and infections all cause this.
Your dr. is right to be cautious. However it is rare that an oral tongue cancer patient would have a recurrence in the BOT (and being so close to the date you finished treatment it wouldn't really be a recurrence but rather something they missed. Which would be unusual.
I'm sure it's not unheard of but very rare.
Hopefully it's nothing.
Hugs and prayers coming your way.
Cheryl : Irritation - 2004 BX: 6/2008 : Inflam. BX: 12/10, DX: 12/10 : SCC - LS tongue well dif. T2N1M0. 2/11 hemigloss + recon. : PND - 40 nodes - 39 clear. 3/11 - 5/11 IMRT 33 + cis x2, PEG 3/28/11 - 5/19/11 3 head, 2 chest scans - clear(fingers crossed) HPV-, No smoke, drink, or drugs, Vegan
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