Mum's good PET scan results
Oct. 7th, 2003 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joeychenI called my mum not 5 mins before she was planning on calling me! She had a PET scan yesterday, and just got back very good results.
The PET scan measures the 'activity' of any tumours, because sometimes the other kinds of scans they do will show a tumour, but it could just be the dead tissue of a tumour.
So she didn't have any activity! So she continues to be No Evidence of Disease.
She went off the Thalidomide (we would have preferred she stay on at a lower dose, but hey, it's her decision, and I know it made her feel like total crap) and she's starting to feel pretty good and peppy.
The PET scan measures the 'activity' of any tumours, because sometimes the other kinds of scans they do will show a tumour, but it could just be the dead tissue of a tumour.
So she didn't have any activity! So she continues to be No Evidence of Disease.
She went off the Thalidomide (we would have preferred she stay on at a lower dose, but hey, it's her decision, and I know it made her feel like total crap) and she's starting to feel pretty good and peppy.
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Date: 2003-10-07 11:58 pm (UTC)