The PET scan stands for Positron Emission Tomography, it is very confusing to me and pretty complicated to explain, this is the wikipedia page on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_scan
But the way it was relayed to me and I just went with is they will inject me with something that will go into my system and react with my lymph nodes, when they do the scan it shows them in high definition if there are places that react to the substance. If it does react to the nodes it will glow and basically means cancer is there. So here's to hoping I'm not glowing I guess hehehe It will also show if in any other areas lymph nodes are glowing to make sure it hasn't spread. They did a chest xray and it came back fine, but the PET scan is alot more accurate.
Thank you for checking with your mother for me, I would appreciate any information you can get!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_scan
But the way it was relayed to me and I just went with is they will inject me with something that will go into my system and react with my lymph nodes, when they do the scan it shows them in high definition if there are places that react to the substance. If it does react to the nodes it will glow and basically means cancer is there. So here's to hoping I'm not glowing I guess hehehe It will also show if in any other areas lymph nodes are glowing to make sure it hasn't spread. They did a chest xray and it came back fine, but the PET scan is alot more accurate.
Thank you for checking with your mother for me, I would appreciate any information you can get!