There is some kind of cancer growing in me and the Oncologists are not sure if my Lymphoma has transformed into Large Cell Lymphoma or into something else.
A biopsy was take a while back and was sent off to an outside lab for gene sequencing. This sequencing is supposed to help the doctors determine which protocol of drugs to use to fight this cancer.
The PET scan is indicating which lymph node lights up the most so that it can be surgically removed and analyzed to determine the same thing that the gene sequencing is supposed to determine.
Not sure why we are doing both... seems a little redundant to me unless the results from the gene sequencing are not back yet. But then there is the scheduling of the surgery and more time needed for further testing. Surely the gene sequencing will be back long before all that happens.
So again, what's the point of the PET scan?
Are we doing tests now just to make money for the hospital and saving my life is secondary?
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