#41366 06-11-2007 06:32 AM | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 26 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | OP  Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 26 | I hear many of you talking about PET Scans. Should I be concerned I have never had one either pre or post treatment? I had a Cat Scan during the diagnosis stage but, am now almost 7 months post surgery and it has never been mentioned. I have a great, well respected surgeon and am being treated at Emory so, my gut tells me to relax but, just wanted to hear your thoughts.
11/28/2006. Left lateral tongue, partial glossectomy, T3, moderately differentiated. 12 lymph nodes from neck, all clear. IMRT, 30X, ended 02/21/2007.
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#41367 06-11-2007 06:47 AM | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 622 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 622 | Good Question. I would be asking my doctor!
Kevin
18 YEAR SURVIVOR
SCC Tongue (T3N0M0) diag 06/2006.
No evidence of disease 2010
Another PET 12-2014 pre-HBO, still N.E.D.
�Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. It matters that you don't just give up.�
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#41368 06-11-2007 07:38 AM | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 718 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 718 | I'd ask too!
My husband had to have a PET scan because his lymph nodes were cancerous and they didn't know where the source cancer was from. The PET scan scanned his whole body from head to toe and found the cancer on the base of his tongue. I wonder if you didn't get one because your lymph nodes were clear. But, I plan to ask for another one post treatment for my husband. Again, because my husband's cancer is in his lymph system and I want an all clear from head-to-toe.
But, check with your doctor, I'd be interested in his reply.
Margaret
Margaret
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C/G: Husband, 48 (at time of dx)
Dx 5/18/07 SCC, BOT, lymph node involvement. T1N2BM0. (Stage 4a, G2/3)
Tx 6/18 - 8/3/07, IMRT x 33 Cisplatin x3 (stopped after 1st dose due to hearing issues). Weekly Erbitux started 6/27/07 completed 8/6/07.
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#41369 06-11-2007 07:47 AM | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 26 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | OP Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 26 | Maybe it is because he was so confident he got it all and the nodes were clear. However, I must admit, I would sleep much easier knowing I was clean head to toe.
11/28/2006. Left lateral tongue, partial glossectomy, T3, moderately differentiated. 12 lymph nodes from neck, all clear. IMRT, 30X, ended 02/21/2007.
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