 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Steve,
"Salvage" surgery would be one option but since it is in a different location you could conceivably get IMRT again. We're getting ahead of ourselves here though - you still need a pathology report, either from a biopsy or FNA and possibly an MRI as well.
Remember that the reading radiologist has to notate every anomaly and it is only a part of the full diagnostic workup. False positives happen more commonly then false negatives on a PET ot PET/CT.
Hang in there.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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