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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / October 2007CT/MRI for Gleason less than or equal to G7
runju99 wrote that: " ..who recommended the CT-Scan and bone-scan? I think you will find that with your low numbers that neither scan would probably be effective in finding anything anyway. You subjected yourself to unnecessary radiation exposure for nothing but padding a rad-oncologist bottom line. " I got curious and wonder how many in this group got MRI/CTSCAN/ BONESCAN after getting their relartvely low Gleason score (less than or equal to 7), and have a POSITIVE indication (metastasis)? For the record, I had both CT and MRI and they were negative. G(4+3). 1/12 core. This article might shed a little light on the subject: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/269/1/57 Ron S. > I got curious and wonder how many in this group got > MRI/CTSCAN/BONESCAN I has two CT scans in 2002 , one for the urologist and one for the radiologist. (I get a bone scan every 1-1/2 to 2 years at the rheumatologist's office.) Neither scan revealed what they were expecting because of (1) the damage caused by ankylosing spondylitis during 26 years and (2) the THR in the left hip. (I now have a THR in the right hip.) >runju99 wrote that: > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >G(4+3). 1/12 core. My Gleason was 6, 2 out of 12 cores. No CT or any other scan was done. > runju99 wrote that: > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > G(4+3). 1/12 core. I had G 4+3, PSA 8-10 (depending on what day I was tested). I was given a bone scan, CT, MRI, and every other conceivable test, not because I needed them, but because I was in a clinical trial and the trial doctors, as a matter of scientific accuracy, cannot omit tests that might conceivably reveal anything about the study population. The MRI was very revealing of the shape and position of the tumors. All tests were negative for metastasis. Alan Alan, This is where I got a lot of my info on the subject among a few other sites; http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/497918 Ron S. |
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