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Joined: May 2007 Posts: 666 | Typically they wait a while (>6-8 weeks) after radiation before they do a PET scan. If you get one too soon the inflamed and healing/scar tissue will show up as metabolically active and may give you a false positive (and much grief). Even so, it is not uncommon that there are some questionable activities around which then by the time you have the second PET/CT scan are resolved.
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Partial glossectomy (25%) anterior tongue. 4/6/07/. IMRT start @5/24/07 (3x) Erbitux start/end@ 5/24/07. IMRT wider field (30x) start 6/5/07. Weekly cisplatin (2x30mg/m2), then weekly carbo- (5x180mg/m2). End of Tx 19 July 07.
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