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yvonne58
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a lesion was found through a cat scan on one of the discs of the spine on my brother what does that indicate, the dr says it can be a sign of bone cancer is that true
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Baybreeze
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Hi, I'm sorry I don't know anything about this, but....I know how scary hearing that can be! Please don't worry yourself too much just yet, let the docs investigate further b/c you don't know yet if it really is cancer. It could be something else.
I had severe ankle problems for years, sometimes it was so bad I wanted it amputated. Well, go forward about 18 yrs when I finally had an MRI done on my right one....I had all sorts of issues in there, including lesions on my talar dome (part of the ankle joint). When my podiatrist told me I had lesions in there, my jaw dropped and I started panicing. Now he did NOT mention anything about cancer, but I heard that word & cancer was the first thing running thru my mind. Then the doc noticed my worries and explained that mine had nothing to do with cancer. Mine were lesions on the bone and cartilage. He said essentially they were spots of bone death either from severe injury or severe arthritis. WEll, I never did anything to injure that ankle. But it causes pain in there and also locking up of my ankle joint sometimes as I walk. SO now I wear a brace. I have no idea if something similiar could happen in the spine cartilage. But even so, it could be something else entirely different than this or cancer.
I had severe ankle problems for years, sometimes it was so bad I wanted it amputated. Well, go forward about 18 yrs when I finally had an MRI done on my right one....I had all sorts of issues in there, including lesions on my talar dome (part of the ankle joint). When my podiatrist told me I had lesions in there, my jaw dropped and I started panicing. Now he did NOT mention anything about cancer, but I heard that word & cancer was the first thing running thru my mind. Then the doc noticed my worries and explained that mine had nothing to do with cancer. Mine were lesions on the bone and cartilage. He said essentially they were spots of bone death either from severe injury or severe arthritis. WEll, I never did anything to injure that ankle. But it causes pain in there and also locking up of my ankle joint sometimes as I walk. SO now I wear a brace. I have no idea if something similiar could happen in the spine cartilage. But even so, it could be something else entirely different than this or cancer.
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feelbad
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quite frankly,it all depenRAB upon what this lesion actually is.the most common form of actual 'lesion' that is usually found upon doing a spinal MRI is actually called a hemangioma.it is just a benign group of blood vessels and nothing major to really worry about(but that also would depend on just exactly where it is located within the spine too).getting an actual MRI done on that area would really be the best thing right now.A CT just wont really show much as far as defining what the lesion actually consists of.this would be what i would do in his situation,get that MRI,with a contrasting agent.i do think his doc is kind of 'jumping the gun' here a bit by mentioning bone cancer on just a plain CT.its just not definitive enough.and that 'lesion' just could be many other things.if you could find out just exactly what that CT stated word for word about that lesion finding and post it here it would really be helpful.but he really does need that follow up with the MRI at this point.hopefully it is benign lesion of no real consequence.please let me know what you find out and if you can obtain that CT info.what gets stated in the actual report by the interpretting rad really is important in just exactly how it gets defined/explained.thats why it would help word for word.Marcia