My cousin is a well known and highly regarded radiologist in town ( Houston ) who recently retired from one of our best hospitals ( St. Lukes ) and is opening a chain of Imaging clinics. He and one of my best friends who is a radiologist too, tell me I should get a PET scan. Yet when I talk to my radiation oncologist at M.D. Anderson, he pooh poohs it, suggesting that PET scans give confusing results that lead to unnecessary interventions.
What is the truth here?

Danny G.

Stage IV Base of Tongue SCC
Diagnosed July 1, 2002, chemo and radiation treatments completed beginning of Sept/02.