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CT Scan of Chest and Stomach - Need Info!!! What is this ?

 
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tingalay
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:57 am    Post subject: CT Scan of Chest and Stomach - Need Info!!! Reply with quote
Hi. My mum has had blood tests following discovery of a lung tumour, and is now having a CT scan of her chest and abdoment. I'm relieved it's not a full body scan, so am guessing nothing nasty in the blood tests to suggest bone tumours, but is the abdo scan because there are markers to suggest the liver is compromised? She is on diuretics... could they make her kidneys produce a funny reading that would lead the hospital to think she needed them scanned? Please help. Thanks
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onecoyote
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:05 am    Post subject: Re: CT Scan of Chest and Stomach - Need Info!!! Reply with quote
tingalay,
You need to relax and take each one of these tests as they come without reading into them. Otherwise you will stress yourself out every time. CT scans of the chest and abdomen are standard fare when first diagnosing. They can look for local spread that way. Lung cancer, though unpredictable, does have a propensity to spread to certain organs first such as the liver and nearby organs in the mediastium area. I am sure your mom's doctors are working their way through your mom's body doing the least invasive kinds of tests first until they are satisfied with what they have seen.
My husband found out after having his lung removed that the lung cancer had spread to his kidney and then to his bones. I blame them for not scanning every where first as maybe we could have found any spread and pushed the cancer back a year ago. Feel good that they are doctors that are on the ball!
Prayers sent for you and your mom to get through this first phase,
Charlene
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Husband Danny, age 66,
diagnosed squamous cell June 6, 2008,
Right pneumonectomy performed with no adjuvant chemo or radiation on Sept. 2008
Metastatic lung cancer in the ribs, scapula and right kidney raised it's ugly head May 2009.
Renal cell carcinoma diagnosed May 2009
One round carbo/taxol, too weak to continue
Cancer racing like a freight train
Held my husband's hand when he passed away September 29, 2009
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