C-11 Choline Pet Scan?

Question...Husband had first PSA test after surgery taken on the 11th (no results yet) and has an appointment with the MO the 18th (our urologist ordered). Doing all the research we can we decided that we wanted the Choline Pet Scan. We messaged our GP and our urologist office to get them both on it and our GP immediately got on board and they are in the process of setting it up. We just received a call from our urologist office saying that they want us to wait until we see his MO (same practice) because he might not recommend it. Why? What
can it hurt? What should we do....won't this further help us in how to move forward?

I agree with Nomar. There is no point to having a PET scan if his PSA is so low that it wouldn't show anything, even if it's there. I can certainly see why you'd want one to help you decide between salvage radiation or permanent hormone therapy. Sadly, at very low or stable PSAs, none of even the newest PET scans are very good at finding distant mets.

Maybe the following nomogram can help you decide whether it's worth having salvage radiation. But it requires a PSA after surgery to fill it out.

/www.mskcc.org/nomograms/prostate/salvage-radiation-therapy

In case you have not seen it yet, here is the original thread on the G9 crew thread with all the various success stories

www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=35&m=2863652

As you will see in the first post, there were so many entries that it threatened the forum capacity and was extended with another thread

www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=35&m=3182035&p=1

If you have not already done so, once you get more PSA info, you can post your case onto the second thread.