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...hat 18% of those with b.c. get mets to shoulder; other talks of gal with shoulder pain for 2 mos. Bone scan and MRI were normal but
PET showed mets to upper chest wall.
Last May a private (non HMO)...
...s with my back and nothing like this.
I don`t want to contact my oncologist and go for a bone and CT scan every time I have an ache or a pain or a cough. The thought of going through another bone...
...es for about 2 months that have woken me up at night and are there in the morning......she ordered a CT
Scan.....which showed a 'spot'.....which is too small to diagnose and now I am going for a MRI....
...od work also for ca 27-29. all normal until july this year. tumor markers rose to 100. onc sent for PET SCAN which showed metastatic breast cancer to my chest wall and a small mass on the adrenal glan...
...ter and sad at the moment. I should be angry, too, but that emotion has been used up. Just had a bone scan.
It hurt to lie still that llong due to the sciatic pain on the left side.
Ouch. I did i...
I don't post too often but read every day. I can't tell you how helpful you all have been.
My cat scan showed a 4mm node on my right lung. So far I haven't been dx'd with any metastasis's but I did
...VT (deep vein thrombosis) which I was certain I didn't have in the first place and thought this type of scan was not indicated from what was going on.
Afterwards, I received a call from my surgeon. ...
Okay, as I mentioned I had another bone scan earlier this week. I should be thrilled with the report. I picked up a copy of the films and the report yesterday. The report reads 3-lines. It states
...markers and they have been normal up til now..they are elevated to 100. ok..so the onc says have CT scan MRI and PET scan. had them all and he just called me and told me that the PET scan showed ...
..., the more confused I become. A very nice informative poster asked me if I had something called a MUGA Scan. I researched what it was and know I did not have it. What I can't find from my research ...
...mptoms?
When did the symptoms appear?
How was the condition diagnosed (does it show on X-Ray or is CT scan needed)?
Thanks for your input,...
...ven phoned me the next week. It hadn't improved so he had me come in. At that time we requested a PET scan in writing for the 2nd time. Well, then his tactics changed. I was told to see my regular...
...d since then have had a slight raising on my blood tumor markers. I had, about 3 or 4 months ago, bone scan. CAT scan, PET scan, chest xray, before a D&C, and a Mammo. All reported clear. For the...
...n September. I've read that about 30% of patients on Arimidex experience joint pain. She's had a bone scan, chest x-ray and bone density test... all are normal. She's tried ibuprofen, no relief. Tri...
...od bloodwork or good diagnostic testing. All they'll do is the standard CBC (CVC?) bloodwork & CAT scans, which seem to be of so little value in treating Cancer.
I can't get care for the lymphed...
... pain either before or soon after dx. 6 mos. after dx, I had a normal MRI. About 18 mos. later a bone scan, which previously did not show this began to show increased activity in the L4/L5 areas. A...
...f she`d had a TRAM, I`m certain she have multiple hernias as a result of this cough.) X-ray and CAT scan show nothing unusual. Maybe bronch spasms? She does have significant edema to her torso, l...
...to find out what's going on with the blood.
I was hospitalized for 2 days last week and all the tests, scans were done and he told me this AM there is a nodule in both lungs and I have an enlarged su...
Gloria's latest CT scan shows a metastasis to one of her lungs. This is uncharted territory for us. Any speculation on treatment options? (The CT report was very bad; about all we know is that the
...year and was clean.
Last week I went to my new oncologist, got 5 or 7 tubes of blood taken, today ct scan of lower abdomen, chest xray, ultrasound of reconstructed breasts.
I came home to a mess...
...er in some areas.
Anyway, around this same time we did 2 'unrelated things.' Because of the last bone scan report---for which the clinical hx had said that I had shoulder pain (which I did) and hip ...
...also says lung volumes are symmetric without focal consolidation or pleural effusion.
Going for a cat scan tomorrow, but I'm wondering, 'Could this be something other than mets, or if mets, how poss...
... a hard lump under one of the scars. The doctor told me it was a very large hematoma, and she did a
CT scan. I asked if treatment was needed for the hematoma, and she said it should go away in about...
... to treat it with steroids first and if her response is sufficiently favorable, then they will do a cat scan to see what's going on. If they elect to go that route, they will have to do the cat scan i...
.... She has stage 4 b/c, metastacized to the bones, both femurs and upper arms bones. She has had a PET scan and a CT scan and they confirm the bone mets, but do not show any other mets. She is, howe...
Just received report of last Wednesday's CT scan. I was told that I woud be unable to get the films until the end of the week because the '"dark room was 'down.'"
Okay--here is report--of CT sca
My wife's elevated liver enzymes (ALT,AST) which prompted a call for a PET scan from our oncologist has led instead to treatment for hypothyroidism.
My wife's numbers: T4,
Letter received today:
"I now have the result of your recent bone scan, which shows changed compatible with arthritis only.
...e mentioned b4 that i was NED until august 2000 when ca 27-29 rose to 100 so onc sent me for PET and ct scans and they came back mets from bc to chest wall upper mediastinum. i was put on arimidex..h...
...0 pounds
now the oncologist wants to wait another month to "see"
wants me to have another pet and cat scan next month
thanks for listening guys
love linda
for allan--- thinking of your wife alwa...
...erned..july it was 79..not concerned yet and then august markers rose to 100. he then sent me MRI cat scan and PET scan bone scan clear, pelvis clear, kidneys pancreas clear. chest wall showed mul...
...mo...etc..then Zometa and Faslodex for a while)..my cancer levels have increased ..and my recent bone scans show that my mets have increased since my first, initial first bone scan 3 years ago........
Just wanted to let everyone know my wife's bone scan was okay. I had earlier posted about a pain she'd had in the ribs in the lumpectomy area. Her onc prescribed a bone scan. Everything was fine. (It
...d helpful to me. I was diagnosed with invasive lobular bc in 9/01. Two weeks ago I had an annual bone scan done with showed a "hot spot" on my right tibia. I have just returned home from having a M...
...the UK where my wife was diagnosed with Breast Cancer (Grade III) last August. Following surgery, a CT scan then discovered secondaries in her lung, liver, bone marrow, chest lymph nodes and spine. ...
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