After Radiation

I have completed a radical lymph gland tumor removal (didn't spread any where else)2/11/08, 35 weeks of radiation and 1 cistipaton, 4 eurbiex treatment all ending 5/14/08.  My surgeon has recommended that I not have my PET scan 14 weeks from last treatment.  Is that what others are being told?  They said you could get a false negitive if you don't wait.

Also, I still am not really eating I have had trush 2 Xs and rad sores on my tongue next to gold crowned teeth, is that something you have experienced?  What can I do, I am still on feeding tube and want to get back to work.  Today it feels like I have something stuck in my throat like maybe a scab or something, not sure.

Any experience or suggestions?  Help! 

On 7/5/2008 moresamshine wrote:

I have completed a radical lymph gland tumor removal (didn't spread any where else)2/11/08, 35 weeks of radiation and 1 cistipaton, 4 eurbiex treatment all ending 5/14/08.  My surgeon has recommended that I not have my PET scan 14 weeks from last treatment.  Is that what others are being told?  They said you could get a false negitive if you don't wait.

Also, I still am not really eating I have had trush 2 Xs and rad sores on my tongue next to gold crowned teeth, is that something you have experienced?  What can I do, I am still on feeding tube and want to get back to work.  Today it feels like I have something stuck in my throat like maybe a scab or something, not sure.

Any experience or suggestions?  Help! 

I had a different type of cancer - tonsil cancer - but they had me wait for app 10 weeks post treatment for exactly that reason.  They want to give enough time for everything to calm down after radiation in order to get an accurate reading.  I also had thrush twice so I guess it is common (this was after radiation was completed).