| Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Hi Mandi,
Six months doesn't sound too unreasonable for a PET. I have had a CT and an MRI since I've completed treatment and it's only been 81 days. All scanning modalities can give false positives or show anomalies that may not be cancer. At my last MRI, my mastoid area was inflamed where the tumor was so they're watching it. They think it's probably due to the radiation. The future "gold standard" will be PET/CT. They have had exceptional accuracy which the fusion of the 2 modalities.
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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