To scan or not, that is the question!
Hi lovely ladies. I’m seeing my oncologist tomorrow for chemo and radiation regime. I asked him about getting a PET scan before and he advised it could give false positives and doesn’t recommend. It’s been playing on my mind for weeks. So question...... I’ve had my lumpectomy Triple Negative Invasive ductal carcinoma stage 1B Grade 3, no nodal activity. If I don’t do a PET scan, how do I know it hasn’t spread elsewhere through blood system or another node. Won’t future scans to check the chemo effectiveness just be looking at my breasts? I’m guessing the usual monitoring is look out for symptoms. That’s going to be a pain because I’ve always suffered from strange pains everywhere. I have early osteoporosis and pretty bad herniated disks, hiatus hernia. Goodness it’s going to be hard not to stress out knowing if somethings new or the usual. i wish we could do a POLL on who did full body pre scans. Any advice or should I just suck it up and follow the advice of my oncologist? Thanks xx