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