Third PET Scan Results

I just got my report online from the PET Scan I took today. I don't know why they released it so soon...usually I can't read them until they talk to me. When I clicked on the link to read my report, I got a twinge of nerves - so despite my positive attitude, I am still human. I pasted the report and impression part of the read from the doctor in the nuclear medicine department. In case you actually read it, use the following vocabulary words to decipher it:

Hypermetablism: This just describes when the cells are eating a lot of the glucose tracer. Cancerous cells do that, as well as other fast growing cells in the body. A "hypermetabolic node" would be a lymph node that has cancer in it.

Uptake: This is talking about uptaking glucose. The "diffuse uptake" in my skeletal system, as opposed to "spotty uptake", means that I have unusually high glucose uptake throughout my entire skeleton.

Lesion: Somewhat of a euphimism for "tumor".

Granulocyte: A class of white blood cells. Neutrophils is one of them, they fight infection. I get my granulocytes boosted with Neulasta.

metastatic: cancerous


REPORT:
1. Skull/Neck: No hypermetabolic nodes are seen.
2. Chest: No hypermetabolic nodes in the chest and no
abnormalities.
3. Abdomen: Liver and spleen are normal. No
hypermetabolic nodes seen.
4. Musculoskeletal: There is some diffuse uptake in the
skeletal system but this is probably related to the
patient's chemotherapy and granulocyte stimulating factor.
I see no lesions in the right hip, sternum or in the
thoracic vertebra. Study looks really similar to his prior
study that was reported on 05/24/2006.
IMPRESSION:
1. PET CT F18 FDG whole body scan looks similar to his
previously normal study of 05/24/2006. We see no evidence
of hypermetabolic lesions in the musculoskeletal system
consistent with metastatic disease. The right hip in
particular looks normal. Sternum, thoracic vertebra are
normal. There is physiologic uptake in general in the
skeletal system related to the patients chemotherapy and
granulocyte stimulating factor.
2. There are no abnormalities seen within the T8 vertebral
body or sternum. Study is essentially normal.

English version: No tumors seen in any of my bones or in any of my lymphatic system. They are able to see my bones being super active, but it is expected that my bones are super active because they are busy producing extra white blood cells because of my white blood cell booster. So, good results as expected.