quick question

[englandwife]

just had a thought - as he had a chest x-ray last week, why would they also request a CT of chest (also want CT of abdomen and pelvic area)?

[Paul54]

It is not unusual to have an initial CT of the chest in addition to an x-ray. Part of it is due to personal preference of the oncologist, to benchmark all the little junk that lurks there, and part of it may be that they noticed small nodes or lesions on the x-ray which are often too small to characterize (usually less than 1 cm). Having small benign nodes or lesions is not unusual, either. Many people have harmless stuff but never know it. In our case, the doctors just want to keep an eye out for changes. Running a chest CT as well as the abdomen and pelvis does not any time to the scan. It's all done in a couple of passes.

[ukboyuk]

I also had a CT scan of chest to start with, oncologist preference. The protocol later on is for x-rays only for this region.

[Englishbloke]

I also have CT and chest X-Ray on each check up.

I think the CT looks at lymph nodes around the groin and abdomen and the X-RAY is to check the lungs (first site TC usually moves to).

[buster]

Hi
I also had a chest xray and ct, my xray showed lesions in my lungs but ct scat showed to be an infection. I do not know if you are seminoma or not but normal protical is for chest xray in alternete visits and a abodominal ct every 3 to 4 months after initial scan. Good luck.