Just to be really clear on this, I don't believe the "fusion" is a test or scan, rather, it is merely seems to be the software combination of two PET and CT scans taken **simultaneously***.

On my, I have the choice in the viewer program (MIMvision) to view PT, CT or FUSION of CT,PT. However, it is clear that if the two scans were not done simultaneously, it would be difficult to synchronize them because the 'slices' (267 in each scan) would not be of the same places.

Today, I got the word from my ENT Doc that my one year post-radiation PET/CT scan (full body, from eyebrows to mid-thigh) was clean. He said that meant:

1. Right now, I am 99% cancer-free (could be some cells in there that the scans wouldn't be able to see, but that's the way we all are).

2. At the end of my radiation treatment, I had a 65% likelihood of no cancer recurrence within five years.

3. Having made it to one year from the end of radiation treatment with no recurrence, I now have a 90% likelihood of no recurrence within five years.

4. Every month that goes by increases the percentages.

He's moved me from a See Me in Two Months to See Me in Three Months schedule.

I am a Happy Puppy!