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can someone help me with this? & how accurate is a PET Scan?
Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: Jul 11 12:19pm | Replies (5)Comment receiving replies
Weeks after radiation and chemo for stage IV squamous cell carcinoma at the base of my tongue, a PET scan showed signs of cancer remaining in the lymph nodes on one side of my neck. Surgery was recommended and performed three months following the end of the other procedures. It was found there was no remaining cancer in the lymph nodes. I couldn't say if the radiation continued to do its job and that was why they found no cancer, or was the PET scan result an error or misinterpretation. Good luck!
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I had tonsil cancer with radiation/chemo. Before and two months after treatment I had NavDx blood tests that is specific for hpv tonsil cancer and petscans. Both were negative. During the follow-up appt with my ENT, he felt a swollen lymph node in my neck. He wanted to schedule surgery to remove 5 or 6 nodes in my neck. This is a very invasive operation that can affect nerves, muscles, arteries etc in that area. I requested a biopsy of the swollen node and it came back negative. Dr said since it was a needle biopsy and they could have missed cancer and urged me to have the operation. I was scheduled for another followup petscan and blood test and elected to wait another 6 weeks for the results. Both came back negative and I changed to another ENT.