CT And PET Scan results - 1254149

Hello catcon49, I wouldn't even want to try to guess what is meant by the above reports, of I'm not a doctor.

However our faculty too can't explain what is meant by just reading scan reports. It doesn't give the whole picture. Below is a better explanation from the guidelines.

" We want brief telegraphic highlights of treatments given and how they worked, a quick summary of staging and pathology, but we ask that people not copy and paste or upload pathology reports, radiology reports, etc. It’s problematic from a confidentiality standpoint, and beyond that, we can’t practically get immersed in the extreme details of everyone’s care. We’re trying to serve a broad population by providing information that can be useful to many people. The more specific the questions get to an extremely unique situation, the more time we are asked to spend to help just a single person. That’s really more in the realm of a person’s own medical team

Related to this, we can answer short questions about terminology of a word or phrase, but we can’t provide very time-consuming, detailed, line by line translations of reports."

Perhaps you can explain what your doctors have told you or what you understand it to mean along with a question or 2.

We are here to help,
Janine

It looks like there are actually some errors in the text there, as if it was scanned and had character recognition software do an interpretation that screwed up a bit (or it was typed in with errors). That only makes it more challenging for us.

But as Janine says, we really can't provide a service of interpreting scans we can't see for people we don't know. Interpreting the significance of a person's scans is the job of their doctor. We are happy to try to provide additional thoughts here and there, but we can't do the job of being the people interpreting scan reports for people.

-Dr. West

We can't give frank medical advice here, which includes interpretation of scans. However, there is someone whose job this is--the oncologist! This is part of the standard job and you shouldn't hesitate to ask for explanation. Some oncologists will even show you the scans if you wish.

After almost 4 years I'm still explaining to my husband that we have to be prepared with questions and anticipate what we do want and may want to ask. Even though the oncologist is very open and willing to discuss anything. He's in a difficult position with us because I want to know everything and D wants to know as little a possible or just the best of news. Denial is a handy brain trick for many people...really.

Be prepared with a notes and to take notes. Most doctors don't care is you tape the conversation. If you're not the patient perhaps you can go with the patient and get the patient's permission (or not) to speak openly with the doctor during the appointment.

Problem is I have never been referred to oncologist. Just the surgeon who did 1st surgery removal of LRL VATS Surgery 9/10/2008 Stage 1a adenocarcinoma LC. No chemo no other treatments. Surgeon at first talked about wedge resection of URL then went to 3 mo. check after PET.

thanks
cathy

Who ordered the scan? If it was a surgeon or GP, ask them to refer you to a pulmonologist.
Take care, Judy

Judy's right, jconnor. Contact the doc that ordered the scan and request an appointment so that he/she can explain it to you. You have a right to understand what is going on.

Please keep us posted,
Laya