 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | If you are just seeing an ENT or head & neck surgeon that will be the typical response - no scans - for some reason they are just not into them. The chest x-ray is indicated on the NCCN oncology practice guidelines. It's my RO from the CCC that orders an annual MRI for me - my HMO will do anything she says. She doesn't think i need the annual chest x-ray go figure. Some here get semi-annual PET/CT scans. I am going to insist on an annual PET/CT because after three years I feel a bigger risk with distant metastesis since my tumor was so large, it was estimated to be 2 years old at Dx. My first PET was ordered by the MO.
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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