I saw my radiation oncologist and told her my back was bothering me, so she ordered a thoracic spine MRI. I had the MRI today and then I drove straight home which took me 5 minutes. I got home and before I could sit down, the radiation oncologist called and told me that I have lesions on my spine. One was a small hemangioma and 4 other tumors on 4 other vertebrae they are not sure of. The MRI report says that they could be atypical hemangiomas, but metastatic disease can't be ruled out. She immediately called my breast oncologist, and they are sending me to another state to have a pet scan radionuclide. Apparently, no hospital in my large metropolitan area including a teaching hospital has this equipment. Hopefully this isn't metastasis. I am concerned because my first breast cancer in 2020 had perineural invasion into a large nerve.

Have any of you had a Pet Scan radionuclide? If so, could you tell me what to expect?