PET/CT Scan Results

I had a meeting with Dr Bishton’s job-share, Nicholas, who showed me the picture of the inside of my body and any areas we should be looking at. He was pointing at a number of areas on the picture indicated by lighter markings which showed where the radiation had accumulated. My focus, however, was on my brain which was glowing bright white. He then explained that as well as the cancer liking sugar, so do brains so this was quite normal also that my bladder would expect to be holding some too. There were a number of areas that weren’t supposed to have sugar which meant areas of lymphoma, heart, kidney, one lung more that the other and my pancreas.  Also present was my keyworker, Cath who explained that this wasn’t as bad as it sounds, that because it is a blood cancer (and so I’d be treated in the haematology department), it was expected to be in a few places where blood goes (everywhere) and that it wasn’t a case of one cancer (e.g. lung) ‘spreading’ to other areas (e.g. pancreas) so one chemotherapy would get the lot of it. I was booked in for chemo.