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Making sense of PET scan report

Lung Cancer | Last Active: May 20 3:38pm | Replies (36)
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@jcalkins

Thank you. Tha t is a lot of good information. I see the pulmonologist tomorrow for his read on the PET scans.

Some questions I have:
I read that the SUV numbers on my report are PEAK SUV and not Max. Which, from what I can gather PEAK is qualitative and Max is quantitative. But what does that mean IDK

And the SUV for the nodes is like 3.2 and 3.4
But it says the liver SUV is 4.6 I am hoping that's because the liver is processing the radioactive medication they injected.

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pb50 | @pb50 | Oct 11, 2023

Most docs I believe just rely on SUV MAX. But if you want an activity that may cause your head to explode, well here is everything you never wanted to know on the topic of uptake values…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/peak-standardized-uptake-value

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Oct 16, 2023

@jcalkins, how did your appointment with the pulmonologist go? What did you learn? How are you doing?

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