Amy, you are sweet to be writing for your mom. I have been reading her CarePage, and I feel like I have gotten to know all of you wonderful girls.

I can't believe that they allowed you to pick up her scan results without being there to interpret them for you/her. That only makes us amateurs worry, often needlessly.

Try to get into "neutral" until you can get the doctor to interpret the scan. It does sound like some sort of follow-up is recommended, if only to clarify the questionable findings.

Which doctor ordered the scan? He should be the one to give you the results and to make the recommendations about the next step.....and if it were I, that would happen TOMORROW. With that in my brain, I know I would have to camp out on his doorstep.

They should NOT have done that to you....to let you take the results without having an appointment to get his interpretation.

Please keep us posted. There are a million explanations, and until you get the professional interpretation, your imagination is, of course, going to go wild. Try not to let that happen, and call the doctor first thing tomorrow.

I looked up "SUV's" and it says that it is the acronym for Standardized Uptake Values. (????) I guess it (obviously) means that she has some increased uptake in those areas, but everybody here knows that, as wonderful and valuable as PET scans are, they give many false positives. There are a number of benign reasons that an area can have an increased uptake rate, including inflammation and infection and active healing.

We'll all be waiting to hear what the dr. says.

XOX