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Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 306 | Darrell, PET scan only finds high rates of metabolic activity. Its use is to direct the medicos to look more closely at a particular site in the body. Wait till you get a more focused look at those places before you get anxious. Any test, short of physical tissue biopsy, does NOT identify cancer with any certainty. The scans just allow them to look in more focused areas. Let us know what you learn. Be strong. Tom
SCC BOT, mets to neck, T4.
From 3/03: 10wks daily multi-drug chemo,
Then daily chemo with twice daily IMRT for 12 weeks - week on, week off. No surgery. New lung primary 12/07. Searching out tx options.
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