 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I would say the the outcome of your PET scan at this point was very good and also predictable for this stage of your recovery. I personally wonder why they even give PET scans so early post Tx.
As has been discussed before, PET scans often "light up" areas that are healing so they won't give you a warm and fuzzy feeling about being cancer free just yet.
All of my initial MRI's post treatment sucked until the one 1 1/2 years out which had no "regions of interest". I have yet to get a post Tx PET scan - none of my medical team thinks I need one.
Early scans just seem to feed the anxiety mill.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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