For all a PET scan costs, they should at least give you an 8 x10 glossy and a couple of wallet size.
Me? Just text.
The radiologist describes a 4.8cm x 3.5cm mass (the neck tumor), with a nearby 1.1cm (reads as cancer) and 0.9cm masses on left side that reads as a "maybe" So, interestingly, not in tonsils or tongue (which had been an early concern)
It also describes an ill-defined mass in the base/start of the colon (the cecum ) which we've seen as a 2cm to 3cm mass in the colonoscopy, and a nearby lymph that was probably glowing because it drains that general area (it was not glowing hard enough to seem cancer in its own right)
And that's it.
Just the neck cluster and the gut tumor and no place else (there was a tiny 2mm calcified nodule in my lung too small to classify)
It remains that I'm lucky that it was not cecum-only (which would have eluded detection until Jan 2018 scheduled colonoscopy) and unlucky that it was not neck-only (for which radiation therapy would have replaced ASCT)
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