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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Cancer / January 2006Followup PET scan
My oncologist has scheduled for me a followup PET scan for Monday morning. There is something different this time. I am to drink a barium milkshake two hours before my appointment. That is a new one for me. What are they trying to accomplish? This is a PET scan not a CT scan. Won't the barium shadow the emissions? With a CT you are looking for shadows, but with a PET you are looking for accumulations. > My oncologist has scheduled for me a followup PET scan for Monday morning. > There is something different this time. I am to drink a barium milkshake > two hours before my appointment. That is a new one for me. What are they > trying to accomplish? This is a PET scan not a CT scan. Won't the barium > shadow the emissions? With a CT you are looking for shadows, but with a PET > you are looking for accumulations. Barium? They gave me radioactive sugar to drink. Just in case, remember that there's a formidable rate of false positives from PET imaging; it happened to me. If they find a positive area, they may want you to go for another type of imaging (MRI in my case).  SignatureIf John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination, my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin. >> My oncologist has scheduled for me a followup PET scan for Monday >> morning. There is something different this time. I am to drink a barium [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > from PET imaging; it happened to me. If they find a positive area, they > may want you to go for another type of imaging (MRI in my case). My radioactive glucose has always been by IV. I presume it will be this time also. >>> My oncologist has scheduled for me a followup PET scan for Monday >>> morning. There is something different this time. I am to drink a barium [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > My radioactive glucose has always been by IV. I presume it will be this > time also. How long after treatment finished they do such tests? SignatureRegards, Araik Margarian. http://journals.aol.com/aramargar1/MyAmericanDream/ > How long after treatment finished they do such tests? It was just over three months between the end of my RT and the second PET scan (the first was before treatment). SignatureIf John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination, my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin. |
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