Ct Scan, Pet Scan...

Any body with ideas about the best way to detect recurrence of cancer?
One year after successful surgery, radiation and chemo and we are looking to finding the best ways to detect any new problems. There is a small something that keeps showing up on the CT scan and the docs say not to worry. Well...too bad, I worry.

Hi Joyce,
I have learned that a PET scan will show cancer anywhere in the body, whereas CT scans only show shadows. My oncologist recommended it right away to see where I did or if I did have cancer. The only thing with a PET scan is they can not measure growth. The CT scan can measure growth.
Hope this helps.
Terry

My last PET scan showed cancer cell activity in three areas. Nothing showed up on the CT scan. My oncologist said it wouldn't have shown up on the CT scan for another 6 months. She said that two years ago, I would have been declared cancer free; because there was no way to detect it at this early stage.

Most people are unaware that there is a reliable, scientifically proven laboratory blood test for detecting over 99% of all cancers. The reason for this is probably another example of orthodox medicine resisting any innovative change; the test is called AMAS. It has been approved by the FDA. You can find much information if you SEARCH "AMAS and cancer."

I would be interested to know, if you follow up on this, what your results are.

Good luck and God bless,
Constance

Have been told by my oncologist that AMAS is a joke. That it cannot be relied upon.

Ed

Don't rely on CT scan to pick up cancer in lungs or airway. They kept telling me everything was clear and no sign of cancer but I was getting worse, so they went down with a scope and it was very clear a tumor was there, then I went and had a PET scan and it found several tumors that did not show up on the CT scan. I wished I had the PET scan 8 months ago.

Did you explore photodynamic therapy?
Ed

I am in remission almost a year, I had the CT scan and the tumor marker
test. It has been working. Good luck

Yes I did have the photodynamic therapy last week at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston and it’s too soon to tell how well it worked. The doctors say it went very good and they expect to kill most of the cancer cells except 1 that was blocking an airway
and they were able to bore through it and take most of it out. In 2 weeks I will go back for Brachytherapy. They put a small tube into the tumor and zap it with radiation through the tube. It sounds good and we pray it will work well. Good luck to you.

You are lucky, in my case the cancer is on the outside of the airways, pushing in and blocking. Have you heard of a variance of PDT called CTL practiced in Europe that can apply to every kind of cancer (Moss Report)? Same principle but they use a different photosensitiser.
Ed