Finished another quarterly PET scan last week, and saw my doctor today for the results, and as expected, all is still good. Now that over a year’s gone by since finishing chemo, he’s changing my scan schedule to three times a year instead of four. Look for another update in December…

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About a week ago I had my fifth PET scan — the fourth since finishing Chemo almost a year ago. The results came back completely clean, as expected. I probably have one more year of quarterly scans, then will start doing them less often. Chemo seems like such a distant memory now, [...]

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Last week I had another quarterly PET/CT scan to continue verifying the success of my chemotherapy (Chemofreedom! was 7 months ago), and this morning I had my oncologist appointment to review the results. My doctor said I got an A+ on the test, and everything looks good (including the unexpected stomach and intestinal uptake [...]

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The results from my upper endoscopy and colonoscopy finally arrived last week, and showed no problems anywhere, so that’s some very good news.  This whole process seems to have taken far too long — I finally have the “all clear” from my August PET scan that showed questionable results, and now it’s almost time for [...]

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Back on August 22 I posted a “3-month health update” blog entry, explaining that I had just had my follow-up PET scan. Especially clever readers may have noticed that I never posted the results of that scan.
The earliest oncologist appointment I could get was about 3 weeks after the scan, on September 12. [...]

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