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Rolepaul · 07-29-2012, 07:35 AM

I am pushing for brain MRIs due to two separate studies that showed if you have a met, 30% of the time it is in the brain. There is tremendous work to get the brain mets under control, and so it is not the dreaded finding it was a few years ago. PET does not identify Brain Mets! Please ask your doctor to run one if you had more than a couple of positive nodes or have had a met anywhere else.

07-29-2012, 07:35 AM	#4
Rolepaul Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Boulder Colorado as of January 2013 Posts: 389	Re: Brain MRI I am pushing for brain MRIs due to two separate studies that showed if you have a met, 30% of the time it is in the brain. There is tremendous work to get the brain mets under control, and so it is not the dreaded finding it was a few years ago. PET does not identify Brain Mets! Please ask your doctor to run one if you had more than a couple of positive nodes or have had a met anywhere else.