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Ovarian Cancer
:TREATMENT FOLLOW-UP
Your physician will schedule you for routine follow-up visits and depending on the type of the cancer, may use blood tests to help watch for a possible recurrence. Your doctors may also order follow up imaging tests or surgeries. If the cancer does return, it is important that additional treatment begin immediately. This is also where PET can help.
PET is the most useful test that you can have when doctors are staging or re-staging your cancer because it can be more accurate than CT or other tests.
Imaging with PET is also critical in order to look for the return of the cancer. Before PET was available, it was difficult to see if the cancer had come back. Earlier imaging tests were unable to detect cancer as sensitively as PET can now, resulting in the delay of further treatment. Blood tests that indicate that a tumor may be growing still do not tell doctors "where".
PET can be used to image tumor response to therapy and to detect recurrence in treated lesions. In some cases, a mass may develop or remain after treatment. The mass itself may be seen on CT scan, but CT cannot determine if the tumor is still growing. For post surgery and other treatments, PET is extremely important for monitoring to see if the cancer cells have returned and if treatment should be re-started
Call Care Imaging at 905-712-9500 if you have ovarian cancer and would like to discuss whether PET could be useful in your care.
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