A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test that uses a small amount of radioactive tracer to measure the ...

On when should a patient get a PET scan for lung cancer evaluation, Dr Mutua says if a chest x-ray or chest CT scan reveals suspicious findings, a PET scan is the next appropriate step.

But preliminary results from an Italian team today showed how combining CT scans and a different scanning technique called positron emission tomography (PET) can reliably detect early lung cancer.

The approach to the management of indeterminate lung nodules ranges between observation with repeat chest CT scan, further diagnostic studies such as PET scan ... Lung cancer is the primary ...

Percy Lee, MD, discussed findings from a trial evaluating a hypofractionated approach to concurrent chemoradiation, ...

Data from 611 FDG PET/CT scans of patients with lung cancer, melanoma, lymphoma, head and neck cancer, and breast cancer, as well as 408 PSMA PET/CT scans of prostate cancer patients, were ...

Doctors typically use PET/CT scans for cancer staging. Doctors may use a needle biopsy to collect tissue or cells from a suspicious lung mass. After collecting these samples, they analyze them ...

the chance that they are lung cancer is very small. If a repeat scan shows that the nodule is growing, we might schedule you for a type of imaging test called a positron emission tomography (PET) scan ...

Radiation is part of treatment for about half of cancer patients. A breakthrough could change the future of the treatment.

Background: The impact that smoking cigarettes has on the characteristics and survival of patients with non-small cell lung ... values on PET scans. Never-smokers with early-stage cancer have ...