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Annual Testing - Long Term Survivors
Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: Jul 29 10:01am | Replies (17)Comment receiving replies
Annual cancer checkups going on for eighteen years now? Do I have that correct? And an annual chest CT?
Wow! Just wow. I have never heard of anything like that. Common for checkups up to five years out, some for three years. One would think that a chest CT yearly would cause more harm than good, it is radiation after all. What besides gold from you or your insurance are they looking for?
Non-medical advice: go to a different clinic. Get a second opinion on cancer follow up.
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I go twice annually to Mayo for CTs of chest, abdomen, pelvis due to being considered intermediate risk for kidney cancer recurrence. Its been allmost 2 years and at some point it will go from semi-annual to annual if all continues good.😉
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Hence my question. I've thought the same about the chest C T. At what point do the cumulative doses of radiation do more harm than good.