Combined scanning could be valuable tool for determining stages of ovarian cancer
Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 06:56
in Health & Medicine
Combined positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) scanning of patients in the early stages of ovarian cancer can enable physicians to determine whether the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes without having to perform surgery, according to researchers at the SNM's 55th Annual Meeting...
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