 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | False positives, "suspicious areas" and "regions of interest" are very common in all types of early post Tx scanning modalities. Typically the radiologist will order "direct visualization" by the head & neck sugeon or ENT. Remember that all scans are only a piece of the diagnostic workup and typically not conclusive in themselves.
I didn't have a "clean" MRI for over a year post Tx.
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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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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