Guest guest Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 Hi, - I'm sure others with PET scan experience will write in, here are links to some letters from the archives on the subject: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Thyca/message/11709 ... brief description of PET scan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Thyca/message/18015 ... PET scans & iodine resistant thyca for some deeper reading ... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uid\ s=8599963 & dopt=Abstract ..... link to abstract - PET scan ( " Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the follow-up of differentiated thyroid cancer " ) I will also post separately a letter from Dr. (nuclear med doctor) on the subject of PET scans and thyroid cancer. hope this helps - justinandhollie@... wrote: > Hey this is Hollie's husband, she just had a negative I-131 body scan today, > and is having RAI tomorrow morning, the doc is talking about doing a PET scan > and I am just wondering what they involve. Like where the injection is given, > is the injection painful, will the body scan or RAI interfere with the PET > scan, how long from now will we have to wait to have the PET scan? > thanks... > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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