I have bladder cancer and about to have surgery. My liver enzymes are high and the doctor wants me to have a bone scan before he does the surgery. Should I be worried. My onconogist wants me to also have a cat scan of my head because of extreme nausea.
Thanks for your question on Chat Doctor. Bone scan is done to rule out bone metastases if present. PET scan is done to rule out metastases present in other organs like liver, lung, brain etc. or not. And surgery is indicated or advisable only if cancer is localized or not having distal organ Mets and bone Mets. So if either in bone scan or in PET scan, metastases are found than surgery is contraindicated. So get done bone scan and PET scan before surgery.