Punky44 wrote:First of all, it’s great news that your CT didn’t show any organ involvement. I am guessing your next scan is an MRI—I asked this exact questions of doctors when my mom was between scans and got this answer: it is possible for an MRI to pick up something the CT can’t, particularly in the pelvic region. BUT the most likely place for this cancer to spread is your liver and lungs and the CT usually does a great job of seeing that so the fact that it saw nothing should be a good sign.
Now in our case, after the CT suggesting we were looking at Stage 3, the MRI showed a suspicious mass not picked up by the CT and this warranted a PET scan and transvaginal ultrasound to investigate and we spent another week worrying if we were really Stage 4. Turns out it was a non cancerous enlarged ovary, aka no big deal and we were back to Stage 3. I don’t want to scare you but I have seen on this board people who have spread to certain lymph nodes in the pelvic region considered “distant” and not “regional” and these would make a person Stage 4, but I will pray for you that your MRI finds nothing of the sort.
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