Comment by p0pularopinion
9 days ago
> My father is a part of "full body PET scan every 3 years" program as part of post - cancer treatment,
These treatments are wonderful and it is great that they exist. But many people fail to understand the difference in terms of pretest probability, etc.
I can absolutely see the heavy psychological impact pending biopsy results may have. People are quick to discount these issues when you raise them as a concern, but only if they never went through this stress themselves
I have multiple scans a year. "Scanxiety" is real.
> Scanxiety
Cute written word - even though two words pronounced completely differently at join (an versus añ).
Which do you pronounce correctly the scan or the anxiety? [scan]xiety or [sk]anxiety
The former. It doesn't quite roll off the tongue, but with my (Australian) accent the difference is minor.
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As a non-native English speaker, pronouncing it scan-xiety (sken-ZAHyetee) feels correct.
I do once a year and have skipped 2 because of that. I've since resumed but for a while I convinced myself I'd rather not know.
Multiple PETs?
Yes, with MRI brain too. I was on 4/year, but that number is reducing as time goes on without recurrence.
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