Guest guest Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 I’ve just had my fourth bone scan, which was clear this time – the last one had an area ‘suspicious for metastasis’ which was enough for the oncologist to accept it as definitive. But….knowing how inaccurate all scans are, and how busy they were at the hospital yesterday, a thought struck me and I thought I’d ask for some input. I have in the past had the injection of the nuclear material two hours before the scan. My understanding of the procedure was such that this was the optimum time for the take up of the material before the material started to decay as it has a short half life. Yesterday it was four hours before the scan started and four and a half hours by the time it finished. I don’t know what material was used, but if for example it was 99mTc-methylene diphosphonate (99mTc-MDP) which seems to be commonly used, is it likely that the scan’s accuracy might be affected by the additional two hours before the scan was done? All the best Prostate men need enlightening, not frightening Terry Herbert - diagnosed in 1996 and still going strong Read A Strange Place for unbiased information at http://www.yananow.org/StrangePlace/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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