Judi Rothman found out a year ago that she had colon cancer that had spread to her liver.
Every day since then, she has lived with worry.
She can push it beneath the surface of her life most of the time. But the minute her doctor tells her it's time for another CAT scan, the fear springs like a cobra, suddenly too big and menacing to ignore.
"In the back of your mind, it's always there that the other shoe is going to drop, and that becomes more active in the days before that CAT scan until I hear what happened," said Rothman, who is 61 and lives in the Northeast. She gets CAT scans every other month to monitor her cancer.
"I always think the worst," she said.
Rothman suffers from what cancer patients call "scanxiety," the fear that punctuates their lives as "routine" tests approach.
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