I was just curious if it was a useful tool to detect anything that the CT might have missed. So far my CT was clear as was my MRI (3 weeks ago) but I wasn't sure on how small a level that was. So technically there could be cancer cells in - say a lymph node - but none of the machines would pick it up...?
I guess Biopsy is still the best tool. Also increased metabolic activity can come from a lot of things... not just cancer...
I think that is why the doctor's here don't use it as much as a CT or MRI.

thanks for the input.


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