An FDG PET scan uses a radiotracer to measure things like blood flow, oxygen use and sugar metabolism in your body. It shows how your tissues and organs are functioning at the molecular level. For cancer patients, PET scans are used for cancer staging, monitoring treatment or to check for recurrence.
When you read results from a PET scan, you may notice a number called a standardized uptake value, or SUV. But what does it...
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When he was 15, my husband Jesse underwent a colectomy, a procedure that removed his colon. Jesse opted to do this after learning that he had familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), a genetic condition that caused him to develop polyps throughout his gastrointestinal tract and put him at increased risk for colorectal cancer.
Fifteen years later, a routine endoscopy showed that Jesse had a lot of polyps in his abdominal area. We needed...
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Rebecca Stedman believes that every experience had in life serves a purpose, and cancer is no exception.
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Over the last 11 years, Katy Tucker has endured a nephrectomy, Gamma Knife® radiosurgery and six chemotherapy drugs. And though the 71-year-old...