My husband has his ct scan on Friday but I have question.
he was treated and cured of head and neck squamous cell oropharynx stage 1. He was a smoker of many years.
Because he was a former smoker ( he quit during treatment ) it’s been hard but he’s doing well. Anyway the dr recommended a one year ct of his chest because of the smoking. They said he didn’t need to have anything else scanned unless we wanted to. His follow-ups every 3 months have been fine. No masses felt in his neck and his entire f/u have been normal. My question is would it be best to have them do a ct of every area or just the chest. I’m getting nervous again. Please say a prayer for him or well wishes. Ty in advance.
Why expose the body to more radiation? Radiation causes cancer on its own and we get enough locally in treatment . Would a CT pick up a tiny tumour?
I won't even let my dentist do X-rays
Chest CT is good for ex smoker lung cancer , though. They do them here in the UK
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
Good evening markmac, its good of them to offer the scans, but i would just stick with the chest scan, i was a smoker but was not offered any further scans. Some people do ask for scans, mainly for reassurance. Great to hear his follow-up appointments are going well. Wishing you and your husband all the best for the chest scan, take care.
Chris x
Its sometimes not easy but its worth it !
When you went back for your yearly, they didn’t wanna check your original cancer anymore.
Yearly scans for the original cancer are not routine here in the U.K. We get a post Tx MRI or PET/CT at 12/16 weeks and that’s it.
If you are offered a place in the PetNeck trial then you get a scan at a year before going on PIFU ( patient initiated follow up)
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
Good evening, markmac. Mine is a bit more complicated, my first cancer was floor of the mouth (2008), which started with me thinking i had an ulcer on my lower gum, but it turned out to be an aggressive tumour ,stage 4. I used to be seen every two weeks to begin with , increasing to one a month ,however by the time i reached 10 months my lower teeth started to become wobbly and a bit sore so i had a biopsy done which showed i had lower jaw bone cancer (2009) so i had new lower jaw reconstructed which all healed up extremely well until in 2010 i noticed a lump on my neck which i thought was a boil but it was cancer of my voicebox (larynx) so i had it removed, thankfully they managed to stop it spreading or re-occuring. Maybe if they scanned me earlier they might have noticed something was not quite right but we will never know as i never showed any signs of having cancer ,it just appeared. Sorry for the long explanation, all the best.
Chris x
Its sometimes not easy but its worth it !
