The pet scan is like the total recall machine which works
like an x-ray except it looks for radioactive sugar concentrations in your
body. The preparation for this is to
have a drip of radioactive sugar and wait for it to go round your body.
Lymphoma cancer likes radioactive sugar so when the blood has pumped it round
your body for about 45 minutes it settles in places where there are areas of
lymphoma. Then I lie still on a machine which slowly moves me under a machine
which takes a 3D picture of the inside of my entire body. Results would be ready from this and the bone
marrow biopsy the next day.
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