Complete Remission with Dr Robert Hoffman

About this episode

The episode discusses the uncertainty of cancer remission and features Dr. Robert Hoffman sharing insights on advanced imaging techniques.

Send us Fan Mail The scariest part of cancer isn’t always the diagnosis, it’s the not knowing if it’s truly gone. After aggressive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and months of brutal chemotherapy, my U.S. PET CT and MRI looked “good,” but nobody could tell me with confidence whether I was in complete remission. So I flew to Japan for a carbon-11 methionine PET scan, a rare imaging tool that demands an onsite cyclotron and a near-immediate scan because the tracer’s half-life is only abo...

People in this episode

Host: Joe Grumbine

Guest: Dr Robert Hoffman

Topics covered

• cancer
• remission
• healthcare
• diagnosis
• imaging
• chemotherapy

Keywords

• cancer
• remission
• PET scan
• chemotherapy
• health
• diagnosis
• imaging

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S. PET CT, MRI

Products: carbon-11 methionine PET scan

Places: Japan

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