can radiation therapy cause hot spots in PET scans?

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  • nonichol
    nonichol Member Posts: 170
    #42
    lizdeli said:

    Scan Results
    I just returned from MDA. Everything is good. Had CT of Lung, Pelvis, Abdomen, flex sigmond something, DRE, blood work. All came out well. Thank God!!!
    Liz

    Liz
    Congratulations! What a relief it is when we have good test results. Celebrate!!!
  • sephie
    sephie Member Posts: 650 Member
    #43
    lizdeli said:

    Scan Results
    I just returned from MDA. Everything is good. Had CT of Lung, Pelvis, Abdomen, flex sigmond something, DRE, blood work. All came out well. Thank God!!!
    Liz

    yea
    liz, congrats!!!!!! what a wonderful report. will let you know about mine when i return from MDA in march. one question. do they put the tube with dye( or whatever it is) up your bottom for the CT ???? last time that scratched the Heck out of me and messed me up. sephie
  • sephie
    sephie Member Posts: 650 Member
    #44
    duckyann said:

    sephie, I had my PET/CT scan
    sephie, I had my PET/CT scan in mid Oct. and it showed a hot spot that was not there previously. I was terrified and it was on the left side also opposite of the original tumor. I had a biopsy done and it was negative. It was all due to inflammation and scar tissue. I was 16 months post treatment the time of my scan. How far out of treatments are you? I really think you are going to be fine. This treatments does a number on most of us. Hang in there....hugs back at you...Nancy

    18 months post tx
    nancy, i am 18 months post so I hope it is just inflammation due to radiation and i hope that it does not form more of the bad cells. sephie
  • lizdeli
    lizdeli Member Posts: 569 Member
    #45
    sephie said:

    18 months post tx
    nancy, i am 18 months post so I hope it is just inflammation due to radiation and i hope that it does not form more of the bad cells. sephie

    Thanks all!
    Thank you everyone. I am so relieved, yet once again humbled by all the people I met during my short visit at MDA. Waiting for the CT scan is endless and of course I wound up talking with many. Their stories were so intense, such hard battles. I learned of cancers that I never knew existed. One woman had such a rare cancer that there are only 100 people world wide that they know of who have it. Chances are 1 in 7.2 million! Makes me thankful even though I had cancer, that it was one that has such a fighting chance.

    Sephie, yes they do a barium rectal enema. It's standard protocol at MDA. Not pleasant, but if it helps to insure that they see whatever they need to see then it's worth it.

    Also, even though I have no discomfort I do have some inflammation per the surgeon who did the proctoscopy/sigmond thing. I can't keep up with all those terms. I guess that's to be expected considering the doses of radiation we got.

    Wishing everyone well and good results on all upcoming scans.
    xoxo
    Liz
  • lizdeli
    lizdeli Member Posts: 569 Member
    #46
    sephie said:

    18 months post tx
    nancy, i am 18 months post so I hope it is just inflammation due to radiation and i hope that it does not form more of the bad cells. sephie

    Thanks all!
    Thank you everyone. I am so relieved, yet once again humbled by all the people I met during my short visit at MDA. Waiting for the CT scan is endless and of course I wound up talking with many. Their stories were so intense, such hard battles. I learned of cancers that I never knew existed. One woman had such a rare cancer that there are only 100 people world wide that they know of who have it. Chances are 1 in 7.2 million! Makes me thankful even though I had cancer, that it was one that has such a fighting chance.

    Sephie, yes they do a barium rectal enema. It's standard protocol at MDA. Not pleasant, but if it helps to insure that they see whatever they need to see then it's worth it.

    Also, even though I have no discomfort I do have some inflammation per the surgeon who did the proctoscopy/sigmond thing. I can't keep up with all those terms. I guess that's to be expected considering the doses of radiation we got.

    Wishing everyone well and good results on all upcoming scans.
    xoxo
    Liz
  • Gulamin
    Gulamin Member Posts: 134
    #47
    lizdeli said:

    Thanks all!
    Thank you everyone. I am so relieved, yet once again humbled by all the people I met during my short visit at MDA. Waiting for the CT scan is endless and of course I wound up talking with many. Their stories were so intense, such hard battles. I learned of cancers that I never knew existed. One woman had such a rare cancer that there are only 100 people world wide that they know of who have it. Chances are 1 in 7.2 million! Makes me thankful even though I had cancer, that it was one that has such a fighting chance.

    Sephie, yes they do a barium rectal enema. It's standard protocol at MDA. Not pleasant, but if it helps to insure that they see whatever they need to see then it's worth it.

    Also, even though I have no discomfort I do have some inflammation per the surgeon who did the proctoscopy/sigmond thing. I can't keep up with all those terms. I guess that's to be expected considering the doses of radiation we got.

    Wishing everyone well and good results on all upcoming scans.
    xoxo
    Liz

    So happy
    to hear your results... just logged on after a while and that made me so happy. I wanted to share that. All the best to you!!!!

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