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CJD_2023
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2 years ago

Does everyone have a PET /CT scan when lymph nodes positive?

Just wandering if everyone has a PET/CT scan for staging when nodes are positive? My pathology came back after left mastectomy and ALND with 3 sentinel nodes positive for cancer, the other 9 showed...
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Blossom1961
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2 years ago
I had a Petscan when I was first diagnosed in 2018 as they wanted to make sure what they were dealing with. It is much better than finding out later that your treatment should have been different.