Pretreatment PET/CT imaging of lymph nodes predicts recurrence in breast cancer patients
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
Disease-free survival for invasive ductal breast cancer (IDC) patients may be easier to predict with the help of F-18-fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scans, according to researchers. New data show that high maximum standard uptake value (SUVmax) of F-18-FDG in the lymph nodes prior to treatment could be an independent indicator of disease recurrence.