Can you interpret PET Scan for me for father? Stage IV Unknown Primary - has pneumonia now and fluid in abdomen. Impression: PET/CT findings consistent with widespread FDG avid metastatic involvement through out the neck, chest, and abdomen, including extensive FDG avid lymphadenopathy, hypemetabolic pulmonary metastatic disease, and FDG avid hepatic involvement. Splenomegaly. Diffuse increased FDG uptake throughout the marrow of the axial and appendicular skeleton, without definite correlate on the bone windows, which is nonspecific, possibly related to reacive marrow hyperplasia. Cancer was found on liver, pancreas, both lungs, lymph nodes but unable to determine primary cancer. Just survived severe case of MSSA from port. What does this mean in layman's terms? -1.png)
Carcinoma Unknown Primary Stage IV - liver, lungs, chest, pancreas - 1271549
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Reply # - October 20, 2015, 09:04 PM
I'm sorry but we can't
I'm sorry but we can't interpret scan reports for people. That should be done by ones health care team. Following is an explanation from our forum guidelines, "5. We want brief telegraphic highlights of treatments given and how they worked, a quick summary of staging and pathology, but we ask that people notcopy 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." http://cancergrace.org/grace-discussion-forums#guidelines"
I hope you're able to get answers and if you find you have other general questions feel free to ask.
Janine
Reply # - October 21, 2015, 05:35 AM
Has he had a biopsy yet? The
Has he had a biopsy yet? The PET scan is a diagnostic tool used in the beginning for staging. GRACE is an excellent place to get answers to direct questions, but they can't read scans or give any type of diagnosis or treatment plan. They can tell you what is protocol, but this in no way should be interpreted as telling you what treatment is best. Only his own doctors can do that. Has he started treatment yet?
Take care, Judy
I am not a medical professional nor a moderator. I am a lung cancer survivor patient.