more good news on cancer stuff
Jul. 3rd, 2010 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serene[Note: the scans are the things that require all the yucky diet-and-drugs stuff]
Me, to my endocrinologist: "[...]Dr. Han said you might want to do another test for the antibodies because this was a different test from the one you'd done in the past. If they're still undetectable in 3 months, does that mean that I'll switch to being monitored just by blood tests instead of doing the scans?"
Her: "I'm glad we were able to detect the cancer and take care of it. I'll let you know when the USC antibodies come back, maybe that's the one to which Dr. Han was referring. We continue to follow these antibodies, but stretch out the frequency, for at least 5-10 years, if not longer. There will likely be other scans in the future, but with negative tumor markers, we generally go with ultrasounds. I do not forsee [sic] another whole body scan in the near future based on your latest labs, but things may change depending on follow up."
Me, to my endocrinologist: "[...]Dr. Han said you might want to do another test for the antibodies because this was a different test from the one you'd done in the past. If they're still undetectable in 3 months, does that mean that I'll switch to being monitored just by blood tests instead of doing the scans?"
Her: "I'm glad we were able to detect the cancer and take care of it. I'll let you know when the USC antibodies come back, maybe that's the one to which Dr. Han was referring. We continue to follow these antibodies, but stretch out the frequency, for at least 5-10 years, if not longer. There will likely be other scans in the future, but with negative tumor markers, we generally go with ultrasounds. I do not forsee [sic] another whole body scan in the near future based on your latest labs, but things may change depending on follow up."
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