Two weeks later, McCoy got her first PET scan, a sensitive imaging test that doctors use to determine how far cancer has spread in organs and tissues. It confirmed that McCoy had cancer in all of her bones. “Nose to knees,” she was told. “Innumerable lesions.” The PET scan resemble...
But not only did the mammogram not hurt in the least—I'd call it oddly uncomfortable—but I found out my lump was normal." She adds that the daily anxiety she suffered from thinking she was dying of breast cancer for two years was way worse than the inconvenience of the test and ...