Tuesday, 7 April 2009

April 6th - Staging test1 - CT Scan

What its like: drinking a jug full of "contrast" and then being scanned by an over-sized doughnut.

What they look for: evidence of widespread distribution of cancer around the body (secondary cancers)

What they found: the scan revealed no trace of cancer apart from a slight thickening of the Oesophageal lining just above stomach. Good news.

Apparently, the amount of radiation from a CT scan is equivalent to travelling to the moon and back – whatever that means…

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