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Complete Remission with Dr Robert Hoffman

Send us Fan MailThe scariest part of cancer isn’t always the diagnosis, it’s the not knowing if it’s truly gone. After aggressive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and months of brutal chemotherapy, my U.S. PET CT and MRI looked “good,” but nobody could tell me with confidence whether I was in complete remission. So I flew to Japan for a carbon-11 methionine PET scan, a rare imaging tool that demands an onsite cyclotron and a near-immediate scan because the tracer’s half-life is only about 11 to 12 minutes. What I heard next changed everything. Dr. Robert Hoffman joins me to unpack the…

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