The use of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) in lymphoma has been greatly increasing over the past few years. FDG PET has been demonstrated to improve detection of occult ...

Predictors of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a ...

An analysis of published studies has found that FDG-PET is less effective at diagnosing lung cancer compared to other kinds of benign lung diseases in geographic areas where those diseases are more ...

Tumor metabolism, blood flow changes, and prognosis by positron emission tomography: A prospective cohort of locally advanced breast cancer patients No significant financial relationships to disclose.

Sri Lanka has produced Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), the radioactive isotope essential for PET scan cancer diagnosis, domestically for the first time, under a public-private partnership between the Sri ...

For patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA), a higher total vascular score (TVS) based on 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging at diagnosis is associated with a ...

Reston, VA – When developing a treatment plan for cervical cancer, it is important to be able to determine a patient's prognosis, ideally at the time of diagnosis. Existing methods to arrive at a ...

PET scans were helpful in determining which patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer may be able to skip chemotherapy. Treating patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer based on positron ...