#7023 02-28-2006 02:45 PM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 261 Gold Member (200+ posts) | OP  Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 261 | Gettin' one tomorrow. I hate this crap. Have to take a whole day off to drive to Seattle. It better come back clean!!! I've got stuff to do!! Erik
dx 2/11/04 scca bot T3 IU 2B MO poorly differentiated, margins ok, 3/16 modest, jaw split, over half of tongue removed, free flap from left forearm - finished chemo & rad treatment 5/20/04
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#7024 02-28-2006 03:09 PM | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 136 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 136 | What's involved in a pet scan. I will be having one in 4-6 months. I've had a CT scan. Are they any different than that other than I think a PET is inside a tube like an MRI instead of the ring like the CT? Right?
SCC Right Lateral Tongue T2N0M0 Dx 01/12/06, Surgery 01/25/06. Partial Glossectomy, Bilateral Neck Dissection - 22 lymph nodes - all clear. No radiation.
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#7025 02-28-2006 07:58 PM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 261 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | OP Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 261 | It's just like the ct only if they do the full body scan it takes longer.
dx 2/11/04 scca bot T3 IU 2B MO poorly differentiated, margins ok, 3/16 modest, jaw split, over half of tongue removed, free flap from left forearm - finished chemo & rad treatment 5/20/04
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#7026 02-28-2006 08:05 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | It's quite different in that the CT part of it allows geometric registration fusion with the PET hot spots dramatically enhancing the accuracy of the scan.
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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#7027 02-28-2006 08:46 PM | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 136 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 136 | I was wondering more about how they administer the test. Doc has explained how it works - but wondering if there would be another IV injection or if it is a drink you take the night before etc... I'm a bit needle phobic and hate IV's. I almost passed out when they did the IV for the resection.
SCC Right Lateral Tongue T2N0M0 Dx 01/12/06, Surgery 01/25/06. Partial Glossectomy, Bilateral Neck Dissection - 22 lymph nodes - all clear. No radiation.
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#7028 03-01-2006 03:05 AM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | It's typically done with a IV but a smaller one then the ones they use for chemo. Just take a Zanax and a vicodin if you have too - that's what I did. It really wasn't any big deal. It is a rather long scan however. I slept through it.
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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#7029 03-01-2006 03:28 AM | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | It takes a while because after the injection you have to wait 20 minutes (or was it longer?) and you have to be lying down and not moving while you wait (which is why it seems like longer). If you are needle phobic (I am), you learn really quickly in the cancer battle to NOT LOOK AT the needles.
I was having pretty bad mouth pain still when they did my PET and I took an extra dose of painkiller before we started. I ended up dozing through much of it, though it was a little wierd because the whole thing was done in the interior of a truck trailer that was attached to the hospital and it was pretty tight quarters......
Nelie
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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#7030 03-01-2006 08:18 AM | Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Erik,
It will be clean.
I chanted that all day for you, lol!
Let us know,
Minnie
SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.
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#7031 03-01-2006 02:01 PM | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 417 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 417 | Positron Emission Tomography PET is different from a Computed or computer assisted Tomography CT/CAT Scan dramatically. PET is accomplished by administering Glucose (IV Drip) and then injecting a radioactive isotope. You are then left in a darkened room for one hour for the isotope to reach cellular level. they then take you to a CT scanner or a new faster 32 slice CT, the total body scan lasts about 1 hour. When the scan is read the cancer cells light up due to the fact that cancer cells (mutant cells)metabolize sugars differently than healthy cells.
But, let me stress, that it takes a highly trained individual to read a PET scan, there are a LOT of false positives, especially when dealing with lymphatic tissue.
They are a priceless tool for detecting early stage tumors but are vague with metastatic lymphatic disease.
Darrell
Stage 3, T3,N1,M0,SCC, Base of Tongue. No Surgery, Radiationx39, Chemo, Taxol & Carboplatin Weekly 8 Treatments 2004. Age 60. Recurrence 2/06, SCC, Chest & Neck (Sub clavean), Remission 8/06. Recurrence SCC 12/10/06 Chest.
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#7032 03-01-2006 04:37 PM | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 115 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 115 | Nelie - that is so weird that you said your PET scan was done in the interior of a truck trailer that was attached to the hospital - is this a standard for PET scan equipment? because when my husband had his done, it was the same exact set up. I couldn't go back with him because there wasn't room, and my husband said it was really cold in there because it was in a trailer attached to the hospital and it was a very cold day.
Michele
Michele, caregiver to husband, Jesse, SCC diagnosed 1/5/06 unknown primary, lf neck mass >6 cm. Chemo (Cisplatin 2x; Carboplatin & Taxol 2x) & XRT radiation 39X ending 4/4/06. Rad neck dissection 8.5 hrs 4/13/06. 30 HBO treatments Fall 2006.
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