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gdavis · 01-24-2006, 07:30 PM

Thanks, I read that site info just now. It does say the same thing that the doctor said about avoiding any type of PET scans or other since they are inconclusive about whether cancer has spread.

But if I read a lot of the posts on this support group, there seems to be a lot of women who are getting scans of some kind. Is it only those people who have had specific symptoms that lead the doctors to investigate the source of those problems- like liver, brain or bone symptoms?

01-24-2006, 07:30 PM	#3
gdavis Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7	Thanks, I read that site info just now. It does say the same thing that the doctor said about avoiding any type of PET scans or other since they are inconclusive about whether cancer has spread. But if I read a lot of the posts on this support group, there seems to be a lot of women who are getting scans of some kind. Is it only those people who have had specific symptoms that lead the doctors to investigate the source of those problems- like liver, brain or bone symptoms? __________________ Columbus, Ohio