Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)    Joined:  Nov 2002  Posts: 3,552  |    It could certainly be due to the healing process.  They typically follow up a scan, such as that, with a direct visualization where they take a closer look.  Rememeber that scans are only a small piece of the total diagnostic package.
  I never had "clean" MRI's in the early post Tx.        
Gary Allsebrook *********************************** 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) ________________________________________________________ "You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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