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What to expect from a CT Scan result? Stage III Pancreatic Cancer - Chemo treatments finished.
They can use it to take a peek at what's happening with your tumor(s), for better or worse, to help assess the efficacy of your treatments, see what you're dealing with at this point in time, and help make decisions on where to go from here.
http://imaging.cancer.gov/patientsandproviders/cancerimaging/ctscans
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/pancreatic/Patient/page1/AllPages
Were they giving you Gemzar for all your chemo?
Good luck with your results.
I had a CT scan on the last lymph nodes that came swelling up in my neck. Was told by my primary care dr. thats all he would need to decide to do a biopsy. (I wanted the biopsy right now) After the scan, the reading from the radiology dept. said it was "non impressive". Then we done the biopsy, turned out to be malignant. The scan is helpful, I've had a ton of them,but not the final word sometimes. but it does great showing how the tumors shrink.
Hi pporterpk,
I too have pancreatic cancer, Stage IIB - whipple surgery in Feb and now six months of chemo (Gemzair). What chemo drug are you taking? No radiation for me - my oncologist tells me radiation yields minimal results if any.
