CancerCompass message board discussion started by Gayle Helen on 8/26/2005 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,2829,0.htm Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ My husband has just gone through 6 aggressive rounds of chemo to deal with a large thoracic mass. It has disappeared but the oncologist is concerned with several lymph nodes is the area. We are going back to the surgeon because he also has a papillary thyroid cancer which they have ignored due to the severity of the sarcoma. The oncologist mentioned that the surgeon may want to remove the lymph nodes as well. Wouldn't a PET scan help diagnose these more throughly before surgery is undertaken? Gayle Helen Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT