I wonder if Brian or anyone here can give me some input on having a test by PET/CT scanner. I attended a talk today by a private hospital on cancer diagnosis and treatment. The speaker highly recommended using this for cancer detection and claimed that this is the most advanced and accurate equipment so far available. This scanner is a combination of PET and CT. The private hospital is making some sort of promotion and with a referral from a public hospital, the test costs about USD$1200. Since I was treated in a public hospital here, I never had a PET scan and my oncologist said that it always shows false alarm. My question is whether it is worth taking this scan as a follow up test on top of those I have on routine checkup like ultra sound, MRI to detect possible met.?

Karen stage 4 tonsil cancer diagnosed in 9/01

Karen stage 4B (T3N3M0)tonsil cancer diagnosed in 9/2001.Concurrent chemo-radiation treatment ( XRT x 48 /Cisplatin x 4) ended in 12/01. Have been in remission ever since.