Do PET scans detect LMP tumors?

[debwmbg]

I hope I am posting this in the correct area.  I am still new to this forum.  I have had 4 occurrences of LMP tumors and adhesions: 1987, 1987, 1989, and 2002.  Each time I have had surgery. Within the past 6 months or so I have been getting the uh-oh signs: extreme weight loss, fatigue, stomach troubles.  Would a PET scan be able to detect a recurrence of an LMP tumor?  I have never had one, although I have had many CT scans.  The reason why I am asking is that in 1999 I began to get the uh-oh feeling and was told by many doctors not to worry, my symptoms were nothing more than aging.  By the time my tumor was found three years later, my entire abdomen was full of adhesions and I am literally stapled together inside from all the cutting.  I do not want to wait three years to have my tumors found if they indeed have.

Thank you.

[Ramsay14]

The PET isn't the greatest for borderline or low grade cancer.  Sometimes the cells or tumors don't uptake enough of the sugar stuff to show on the scan.  CT or MRI is better.

[debwmbg]

Thanks for your input. I also had a CA125 test done, but my levels have always been okay on those results, even when I had a tumor.  

[cjan222]

I think it helps to get the scans done together.  At mine, I remember reading that one of them detects the presence of clumps of "weird" cells, and the other one determines how just how "weird" the cells are.