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3 month CT for everybody???

lp1964
lp1964 CSN Member Posts: 1,239 Member
in Colorectal Cancer #1

Is everybody getting CT's every 3 month for the first year? I had a rectal cancer with no lymph node or other organ involvement.

Thank you, 

Laz

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  • fatbob2010
    fatbob2010 CSN Member Posts: 467 Member
    #2
    Yep

    Laz,

    That was my routine for the first 9 mo to a year.

    Art

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  • Trubrit
    Trubrit CSN Member Posts: 5,808 Member
    #3
    Every six months and then

    the cancer spread now its every three. 

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  • marbleotis
    marbleotis CSN Member Posts: 721 Member
    #4
    Hi Laz

    I had stage 3b/signet cell (of the ascending colon).  I had CT's every 6 months the first 1 1/2 years and CEA every 3 months. 

    Now that I am (almost) 2.5 years NED the Onc moved me to CT's every year and CEA's still at 3 months.

    I believe it depends how you were staged.

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  • ron50
    ron50 CSN Member Posts: 1,723 Member
    #5
    Hi Laz

      In the bad old days I only had one every six months for three years then one a year out to six years. Cheers ron.

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  • Nana b
    Nana b CSN Member Posts: 3,030 Member
    #6
    ron50 said:

    Hi Laz

      In the bad old days I only had one every six months for three years then one a year out to six years. Cheers ron.

    I only got a CT if my CEA was

    I only got a CT if my CEA was up, or I was on chemo and had to have a mid point Check. While NED, only CEA. 

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  • janderson1964
    janderson1964 CSN Member Posts: 2,215 Member
    #7
    Every three months for at

    Every three months for at least the first year or until you are NED and done with treatment.

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  • TheLadySkye
    TheLadySkye CSN Member Posts: 203 Member
    #8
    My Experience

    My cancer center did a scan before surgery, and then another after for a baseline.  Then one after chemotherapy was completed (with one in between when I was experiencing symptoms of a blockage, though thankfully, did not have).  This past clean scan was my first after chemo.  They said labs every three months and scans every six for a couple years.  If all goes well, then yearly scans (I'm not sure for how long).  They don't seem to want to think so far ahead.  I realize that last part is probably pretty normal, but does anyone else find that kind of pessimistic (the not thinking too far ahead part)?

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  • Trubrit
    Trubrit CSN Member Posts: 5,808 Member
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    TheLadySkye said:

    My Experience

    My cancer center did a scan before surgery, and then another after for a baseline.  Then one after chemotherapy was completed (with one in between when I was experiencing symptoms of a blockage, though thankfully, did not have).  This past clean scan was my first after chemo.  They said labs every three months and scans every six for a couple years.  If all goes well, then yearly scans (I'm not sure for how long).  They don't seem to want to think so far ahead.  I realize that last part is probably pretty normal, but does anyone else find that kind of pessimistic (the not thinking too far ahead part)?

    I was told eight years

    Both my Radiation Oncologist and Oncologist said that if all goes well (which it hasn't for me, but will for you) they keep an eye on your for eight years. 

    I know each Oncologist seems to do it differently. 

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