Debz,

I have had 2 post treatment pet scans, one at 3 months and 1 at 8 months. The first one showed uptake and they did a biopsy which came back negative. The second pet scan came back with uptake in the same areas, but at a lessor uptake value. My ENT did not seem overly concerned and said he will watch it clinically. From what I learned it could still be to early to get an all clear pet scan, and there could be a lot of scar tissue and healing still going on in there.


Tom
SCC T4N1M0 left side tongue & 1 node
Dx 05/21/07 42 yrs old
40 Tx IMRT @ 70 Gy started 06/25/07
Cysplatin & 5fu 1st & 4th wks
treatment ended 08/23/07