PET SCAN RESULTS

He everybody, well it was an interesting day. Wendy and I went to my ONC office to get a copy of the results. I asked one of the girls there that I know and like very much if I could get a copy of the scan results. She said wait a minute and I will get back to you. Well we waited for about 10 minutes, and a different lady I had never spoken to before come out and calls me in to the back. She starts to tell me that its their policy not to give out results until a doctor has reviewed them and that my ONC said to just wait and keep the appointment until next week. I then told her that those results are mine, they are in my file and I have the right to see them and get a copy of them , she again trying to tell me about their policy when I interrupted her and said, listen you don't understand, I am going to get a copy of that report if I have to sit in your waiting room till closing time. I told her I cant wait another 8 days not knowing what the results were, and by you not letting me have a copy leads me to believe they are bad and I want to know now. SHe said she would check with the doctor and get back to me. Well back to the waiting room I went. Not 5 minutes later she called me up to the desk and handed me an envelope with the scan results in it. I said thank you. Wendy and I then sat down right there and started to try and interrupt the scan results. From what I could read everyting look good.

Then we got to the last page and it said this:

1. There is no evidence of locally recurrent disease as athe level of the rectosigmoid anastomosis or evidence of enlarged adenopathy in the abdomen or pelvis with hypermetabolic activity to suggest metastases.

2. No new solid organ metastases or Foci of Hypemetabolic activity with the lungs bilaterally.

3. Improved right-sided loculated pleural fluid, trace left sided pleural fluid and areas of sub segmental atelectasis as described above. Right middle lobe wedge resection was performed, and there are no foci of FDG activity at that site.

4. No additional sites of distant metastases, the bony structures appear intact.

5. Routine follow-up as clinically indicated.

So I dont know all that means exactly but I would pretty much say I just met Mr. NED...

WHat do all of you think????????