CT scan

I had my thyriod removed 3 weeks ago. During surgery they discovered it had spread to more lymph nodes than expected and was asked for  a CT scan on Friday on my thorax, abdomen and pelvis. The scan is very straightforward. 

I don’t know my results until the 16th May.

I hope you are healing well. Fingers crossed for positive news for you. Thank you for your reply. They haven't said that the cancer has spread. In fact there has been no mention. So I am guessing it's just a precaution. 

Heya,

I mentioned it on the other thread, but I'll repeat here too.

The CT scan is standard practice before ops in some hospitals. They like to do a scan and see the results before they operate, because that way they know better what sort of operation they are doing and how long it might take. That way, they can schedule surgeries a lot more efficiently rather than operating blind and finding they need to remove more than they thought, so the surgery takes much longer, and people need to be cancelled. Or the opposite, they plan for a long op, find things are better than expected, so the surgery is shorter than booked - but then they don't have another person to operate on and the theatre sits there empty and wasted.

So they'll be looking at the lymph nodes that are around the thyroid, and these branch up, down, and side to side. So they scan from your head to the mid level of your breasts - ish. I'm glad they did that with me, because although I didn't have any lymph node involvement, I did have ectopic thyroid growth in my chest cavity! So they did a third operation to remove that as it was too low down in my body, so was out of the remit of ENT and was into thoracic territory. If they'd not found it and had given me RAI, it would have swollen and possibly given me issues with my heart as it was sitting right on top of it.

Lass

xx