X ray Bone Cancer or not ?!


Question: X ray Bone Cancer or not ?
Hi everyone:
My father was diagnosied with prostate cancer and a bone scan was performed to check for any cancer anywhere in the body. The results came back negative and cancer was not spread outside the prostate. He has surgery set for april to remove the cancer from his prostate, doctor performing the surgery suggested some tests to be perfomed before the surgery. My dad got a Xray done on his chest and when the results came out they found a spot on rib cage, so to double check doctor got the xray done again and the same spot was found on the chest ribcage.I called my dads primary doctor and she said we need to get a CT scan done to look further into the spot to exactly know wot it is. Doctor who's performing the surgery was also notified about this but he said that to perform the CT scan after the surgery.

So my questions are
1) now is if that spot is cancer, shouldnt that be spotted by the bone scan or the bone scan is just limited to prostate area.
2) If the spot on my Rib cage is not cancer, what else can it possibily be ? It cant be a old flacture because my dad has gotten xrays done before and this has never shown up.
3) Should I wait til as the doctor said and get the test done later or wait after the surgery, Should I be worried
Respectfully please answer if you are an expert in this subject or have experinced it your self.

Thanks and regards
David

Answers:

I know you asked this question before and I didn’t bother to answer it as Spree the oncologist here had already done so. Obviously you must not have understood something so I will give it a go.
A bone scan does not tell you if the cancer is limited to the prostate or not. It is used to determine if there are bone mets or not and it is the best test available for this.
It is impossible to comment on anything else as “spot” is not a medical term and a doctor would never use it, therefore I don’t know what it is. You can either read the report or ask the doctor who ordered it.
Chest x-rays are done in this case as part of the surgical clearance and to a lesser degree metastatic work up, but this would be for lung mets not bone mets.
Obviously the surgeon is not overly concerned as he is going forward with the surgery and there would be no point in doing the surgery if he had bone mets.
If you still have a problem with this you need to speak to the urologist and have him explain it to you.

Also, although bone mets can occur anywhere with prostate cancer it usually occurs in the hips and pelvis first.
It is not likely to be bone cancer.

I am a cancer registrar.



I suggest you consult a doctor immediately today. Good consultants are available 24*7 online. Khoka.in is a good and highly affordable e-clinic. You may consult them as well.

http://www.khoka.in/



i dont know. SEE your doctor



If it's bone cancer a CT scan can see and make a image a lot more clear,since bone cancer is still a tumor..tumors are soft.

If it isn't cancer it could be a cyst,calcium deposit,benign tumor.Sometimes you can fracture a bone so clean (hairline fracture) that it isn't even seen on X-Rays at first until it starts to heal.Since bone heals by building new bone it overlaps and it would be more visible on an X-Ray days to weeks even months after the injury.

Listen to the physician,they go to school for many years to help people.They know a lot more about what they're doing than you do.




The consumer health information on answer-health.com is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice or treatment for any medical conditions.
The answer content post by the user, if contains the copyright content please contact us, we will immediately remove it.
Copyright © 2007-2011 answer-health.com -   Terms of Use -   Contact us

Health Categories