Dual time point FDG-PET/CT imaging… Potential tool for diagnosis of breast cancer

Dual time point FDG-PET/CT imaging… Potential tool for diagnosis of breast cancer
A.A. Zytoon, K. Murakami, M.R. El-Kholy, E. El-Shorbagy
Clinical Radiology (2008) 63, 1213e1227

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This is an interesting Egyptian study showing that dual time point FDG-PET/CT improves the discrimination between non-invasive and invasive cancers, and provided superior sensitivity for the detection of small cancers and cancers in dense breast.

PET/CT in breast cancer is becoming increasingly used in the western world, and new indications are regularly being found. This may be one of them if validated in another study

Dual time point FDG-PET/CT imaging… Potential tool for diagnosis of breast cancer

Dual time point FDG-PET/CT imaging… Potential tool for diagnosis of breast cancer
A.A. Zytoon, K. Murakami, M.R. El-Kholy and E. El-Shorbagy
Clinical Radiology 2008 63,11: 1213-1227

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Dual time point FDG-PET/CT improves the discrimination between non-invasive and invasive cancers, and provided superior sensitivity for the detection of small cancers and cancers in dense breast