Lymph Nodes- is there any point

Reading don't have one either. They send patients to Oxford or Mount Vernon for PET scans.

However, hospitals without their own PET scanner offer far fewer PET scans to their patients. I had assumed this might down to cost, but an oncologist said to me it's also familiarity - oncologists in centres without PET scanners are less experienced in using them, often don't realise how useful they are (some have even been skeptical), and how often they cause in changes to treatment which improve outcomes.

There is a big shortage of PET scanning capacity though. This is causing a waiting period which is itself unsuitable for some patients, resulting in treatment having to go ahead without waiting for a scan.

You sound similar to dh with it in a lymph node. Though dh has it in more than one lymph node. However it is 9 years from original treatment and the original treatment worked as nothing found in the prostate. It’s amazing it can sit in the lymph nodes all that time without putting out psa (dh’s psa was 0.01 for almost 5 years) As I said above I don’t get how it got into nodes further up into the pelvis, but none in the nodes close to the prostate. The consultant did say they must’ve been there all along. In that case….its annoying they don’t just do a psma at initial diagnosis.