Hi Redd1964

Welcome to Cancer Chat and sorry about your partner's niece. 

Our nurses will be well placed to answer your questions.

You can call the team on: 0808 800 4040 from Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

Please come back and let us know how the MRI scan goes.

Best wishes

Jane

Scan is due this afternoon at 4pm and I feel sick (screaming inside). It's a total body scan and then you ask why? Do they think this is a secondary tumour and if so, where is the first??? Appointment tomorrow to get the results. Everything changes then. I'd swap places if I could.

Hello Redd1964,

Best of luck for your scan this afternoon and also for tomorrow's appointment. We'll be thinking of you.

Do come back and update us all on how it went.

Best wishes,

Lucie, Cancer Chat Moderator

Been thinking of you today and sending best wishes. I always have a full body scan, it's just to check the cancer hadn't spread elsewhere.  It seems that nearly every cancer is 'rare' these days - two of those I have are considered rare.  Research has moved on in recent years and treatment is so much better now so please be positive and, as Lucie says, please come back and let us know how things are.

Thank you for your replies and support - apologies for any confusion, it's my partner's niece, not me.

A friend at work said her husband had to have a full body scan after initial diagnosis to check the cancer hadn't spread so I can breath and see this as the "norm". Would still trade places with her at the drop of a hat.

Hoping above all hope that her results are "good" if that's not a daft thing to say and it hasn't spread anywhere else. Hate the fact that she lives so far away.