 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 571 | PETs give reads on inflamation and have a high instance of false positives in general. I'm glad your doctor isn't jumping to any conclusions here.
J's PET lit up in bilateral nodes because of a throat infection. His RO ASSumed it was cancer. He had just started the rad plan of carpet bombing J's head and neck from his nose down to his collarbone...when...voila! No cancer per the 2nd opinion from a CCC. Silly RO...he didn't do a biopsy!
We fired the original docs and hired new ones. Follow-up scan revealed no activity in the nodes that were presumed to be malignant. The inflamation went away.
Ex-spouse MISDIAGNOSED with SCC-HN IVa 12/10. Tonsils out 1/11. 4 teeth out 2/11. TX Erbitux x2, IMRT x2 2/11. 2nd opinion-benign BCC-NOT CANCER 3/11. TX stopped 3/11. New doctors 4/11. ENT agrees with 2nd opinion 5/11. ENT scoped him-all clear 7/11. Ordered MRI anyway. MRI 8/22/11 Result-all clear.
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