 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Tough call Lee but remember that pet scans early in post Tx often show false positives. It could very well be scar tissue. This is an excellent link to all of the intricacies of PET scans: http://www.bcm.edu/oto/grand/05_05_05.htm All of my early mri's had "regions of interest", which turned out to be nothing.
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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