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Kat;
It's called a Gated Cardiac Scan and is done in the nuclear medicine department of the hospital. They inject a drug firstly to prepare the red blood cells to accept a radioactive dye which is injected 30 minutes later. In this way they can visualise the blood in the heart. They use a gamma camera close to the heart to take images of it to determine how well it is functioning. In this way they test how much blood is being pumped through the heart and how well it pumps....i.e. with vigour or without kind of thing. I know that as my score went down I became more tired and remained with chemo brain....which I assumed was chemo brain....now I wonder. I thought that it was standard for everyone taking chemo or herceptin to have this test done regularly.
Cathy
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