If I remember correctly 4.5 isn't a terribly high suv right? Thats a good thing as well

Anything above 2.0 SUV uptake is suspicious for cancer. Not sure about size=uptake value, but may as they may take in more glucose due their size. PET's are so sensitive. I heard them being able to detect up to 5mm, while a CT, MRI it may be 1cm, and that's why I would rather have a PET/CT, a Sonogram is better than all three in the cervical neck, and had similar size detected before by PET that wound up being cancerous with uptake of 2.3, 2.5. I just hope the pathologist can get a sample, and doubt it's a nodule, but I have several other pathologists I dealt with elsewhere. I'm never short of doctors lol.

FNAB scheduled on Aug 29th. Follow-up with the ENT on Septebcer 12th. Had to cancel my RO and MO appt next week to reschedule after the 29th.

Oh Paul, bugger.
More waiting.
Tammy

Waiting is the worst! My radiation oncologist follow-up is September 9th. I have to see how I'm goi g to sneek out my report, being this place is unfamiliar territory. I'll just ask or go to medical records.

Im very sorry the report came back with some suspicions. Hoping it turns out to be just some scar tissue.

Thanks, Christine.

Hopefully it's an unhappy scar? Healing area? Hugs and hope its nothing. You deserve that at this point.

Thanks. Hopefully it's one of the lesser scenarios, scar tissue, inflammation, necrotic tissue. Had a lot done to this area, plus alloderm to protect the carotid, and that was removed, so who knows, but it wasn't there in February, at least not picked up. I do have a tooth/gum infection, which I'm taking antibiotics for, and had swelled up my neck last week, but is a concern being I had cancer in level III, three times.

Well, I had my biopsy on August 29th. Was told prior with a sonogram, and always had with ultrasound? Find out they are both the same, but technically different, which I'm not going to try and figure out. After the pathologist took the sample, I think there were two nodes, she said my doctor will have the results the next day. I was usually told something on the spot from my prior 6 FNAB's elsewhere, like it is recurrent cancer, it's the same as before and interesting lol, I asked if it was "interesting?" The Pathologist kind of hesitated, saying she had to look at it further being reconstruction is difficult to tell, and my doctor will have the report the next day, which was Friday. Being a holiday weekend, I didn't inquire by telephone, not that I was told to do that, until Tuesday. The administrate aide said the nurse has to give me that info, and would call me back. No one called back after a reminder several hours later, so I made a trip to the hospital yesterday, Wednesday, and met with the Physician Assistant, who said all the results are not back yet from further testing, my ENT was not in, and hopefully when I see my radiation oncologist on Monday, the 9th, they will release the test results to him instead of me waiting until Thursday the 12th when I follow-up with the ENT, and will have some treatment plan in place, corrected herself, probably after my eyes popped open lol, and said or maybe it's not needed.

Before that I ran into the SLP and exchanged greetings, and asked me what I was there for? I said to pick up some biopsy test results, and she asked me if the doctor looked at then yet, and said I didn't know. She then said they are not going to give them to you like that, and hand you a piece of paper to figure out, but said I have no problem with that and can handle it.

I really like getting the results back before seeing the doctor for piece of mind, know what direction I'm going in, and if needed, able to ask the right questions, with a little research. So now I have to wait until Monday for the surprise results. Waiting is the worst.