DEXA Scans

tanda
tanda Member Posts: 174 Member
in Anal Cancer #1

For those of you who get DEXA scans, how long did you wait after radiation to have the scan.  Radiation effects continue over time, but I wonder if one should wait for a yr or more after the scan to get a more accurat evaluation.

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  • jcruz
    jcruz Member Posts: 379 Member
    #2
    dexa scans

    I had one a little over a year after treatment.  This is part of what the report says:

    Comparison to the most recent study dated 11/12/2003 shows:    

     

    There has been no significant change in bone mineral density at the spine,  

     

    but bone mineral density has decreased 1.1% at the hips. 

     

    I know I talked with my doctor and I don't remember specific remarks but she said it wasn't signifcant change in the hips.

    		  
  • EvelynB
    EvelynB Member Posts: 72
    #3
    Tanda

    I am only 3 months out from treatment so I have not had this scan yet but I asked my friend who is three years out and she said she had it after one year.

  • mp327
    mp327 Member Posts: 4,440 Member
    #4
    EvelynB said:

    Tanda

    I am only 3 months out from treatment so I have not had this scan yet but I asked my friend who is three years out and she said she had it after one year.

    Tanda

    I finished treatment in September 2008 and had my very first DEXA scan in March 2009.  I now have osteoporosis in both hips and my spine.

    Martha

  • Rague
    Rague Member Posts: 3,653 Member
    #5
    I've been osteopenia (now

    I've been osteopenia (now osteoporosis) for quite a few years so have had DEXA tests many times.  They are a test, not not a scan involving radiation injected as in Scans with Contrast.  Very basically DEXA tests are just X rays.  

  • mp327
    mp327 Member Posts: 4,440 Member
    #6
    Rague said:

    I've been osteopenia (now

    I've been osteopenia (now osteoporosis) for quite a few years so have had DEXA tests many times.  They are a test, not not a scan involving radiation injected as in Scans with Contrast.  Very basically DEXA tests are just X rays.  

    Rague

    Your DEXA scans must have been different than mine.  I have never had contrast for a DEXA scan but have had it for CT and PET scans. 

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