I've been really wondering about the scan thing lately, too. My husband is 42 days post radiation/chemo and nothing has been mentioned about a scan. We see the ENT surgeon and radiation oncologist on Wednesday (they do the follow-up appointments together). I'm going to ask when the first post-treatment scan will be. But I don't have much confidence in CT scans, since neither the tonsil tumor or a second cancerous lymph node was picked up on the CT scan before my husband's treatment. Likewise, a PET scan failed to see anything. Does that mean that a MRI is the best way to go for early detection?

Anita


Husband Dx 12/02 Stage 4 Tonsil Cancer T1N2bM0; surgery, radiation, chemo 1/03 - 4/03.