CT Scan for Cancer Patients
The
Mount Vernon Sun ran an article last week that speaks to the importance of preventive imaging. The story is about a woman named Christine Rodman who is currently engaged in a battle with breast cancer. She went through several months of wrong diagnoses before the cancer was found, by which time it had reached a level four stage and was spreading through her body. A
CT scan was done that revealed that the breast cancer had spread into her bones.
Rodman is working to battle the cancer through chemotherapy treatments. She has a double mastectomy planned and will continue as advised by her doctor in the hopes of beating the disease. With a husband and four young children who love her, she has good reason to give life a fighting chance. And she has the support of her community which is helping to raise money to pay for MRI scan costs and other related medical expenses.
But the fact of the matter is that it's hard to fight a disease that has spread so far.
Preventive imaging helps to catch problems in the body before they have reached such a detrimental level. Scans can prevent misdiagnosis of disease and provide valuable time to patients who need it to ward off health problems. Even after the diagnosis, a scan is important to showing the exact spread of a disease like cancer and helping to make decisions about treatment easier to make.
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