Hi everyone,
These radiologists are making me crazy.
I haven't posted in a while. Here is my history:
I was dx 9/2005 with stage 3/4 cc. Did the resection, 6 months of Folfox with 5 treatments of Avastin. and finished in May 2006. Clear scans until now, (or so I thought). I was staged 3/4 because of a lymph node that showed up after surgery that had a PET uptake of 2.0
I won't bore you with my whole story with these darn scans. It is very complicated. The long and short of it is that even though I went to the same place for all my scans apparently two different Dr.s there have read them and they disagree. One says normal, one says I "MAY" have residual malignancy on this latest scan because that same lymph node has the same uptake of 2.0. (it is NOT enlarged, although it appears to have calcified) The kicker is that when this Dr looks back on my most recent scan (which was read by someone else, who said in his report it was all clear) she says she sees it there too.
What the hell?
Has anyone had something show up in a PET scan that has a mild uptake like this (2.0) that turned out to be cancer (or not?) My ocologist says we should just wait and keep scanning to look for change. I'm trying to just forget about this and just live my life. My husband thinks it is just a Radiologist covering her ass but I am not so sure. Thanks in advance Sue