I picked up my PET/CT report today. Overall it looks pretty good, but going to wait for my doctor's opinion's next week, before I do a happy dance self proclaiming myself being all clear. There are no signs of distant metastases, which is good, just some imaging concerns, some highlighted below:
Findings: "...there are patch regions of cutenous thickenng overlaying the flap reconstruction without discrete nodularity. On the corresponding functional images, there is mildly heterogenous metabolic activity especially seen deep to the reconstruction flap and adjacent surgical clips, maximum SUV range measuring up to 4.4. Anatomical evaluation of the deep margin is limited due to the lack of intravenous contrast and streak artifact from the surgical clip."
Impression: "....there is no obvious findings to suggest new sites of metastatic disease, however, the current CT imaging evaluation is limited due to the lack of intravenous contrast and PET imaging is limited due to presumed post surgical inflammatory changes especially along the deep margins. It would be expected that the current study serve as a baseline for future comparison.
Maybe I'll be sent for an MRI or rescanned in a few months? My last visit with my local oncologist suggested I would be a good candidate for Chemoprevention with Tervceva, erlotinib, and will ask the others doctors their opionion's on that. To be continued.