Shane's is right. many factors are involved, and way too complicated for my taste. FDG-18 is the glucose tracer injected before the scan, which distrubutes throughout the body to highlight possible cancer, being tumors like suck up glucose. None of my PET/CT scans, I had 12 or so, sound exactly like these, and each facility is different too, and SUV would be the uptake from the FDG injection given, and would be repetive, and doesn't need to be said. It's like writing, there are many ways to tell the same story, and end the same.


10/09 T1N2bM0 Tonsil
11/09 Taxo Cisp 5-FU, 6 Months Hosp
01/11 35 IMRT 70Gy 7 Wks
06/11 30 HBO
08/11 RND PNI
06/12 SND PNI LVI
08/12 RND Pec Flap IORT 12 Gy
10/12 25 IMRT 50Gy 6 Wks Taxo Erbitux
10/13 SND
10/13 TBO/Angiograph
10/13 RND Carotid Remove IORT 10Gy PNI
12/13 25 Protons 50Gy 6 Wks Carbo
11/14 All Teeth Extract 30 HBO
03/15 Sequestromy Buccal Flap ORN
09/16 Mandibulectomy Fib Flap Sternotomy
04/17 Regraft hypergranulation Donor Site
06/17 Heart Attack Stent
02/19 Finally Cancer Free Took 10 yrs