 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Diane,
Even the NCCN guidelines, used in the US, only call for physical exams and an annual chest xray for H&N follow-up. Some people here get annual PET's, MRI's etc. but some institutions will not perform them and then there is the insurance reimbursement issue.
I managed to get annual MRI's but only had a PET scan in the beginning, as part of my initial workup.
You could invent a cure for cancer and if the insurance compaies won't reimburse it's dead in the water.
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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