Lung Cancer

Combo PET/CT recommended to determine stage of non-small-cell lung cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 25th, 2004

The combination of real-time PET and CT is a highly sensitive tool for identifying non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and can assist in identifying patients whose cancer has not yet spread to lymph nodes, according to results of a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

The findings are important because they suggest that combination PET/CT should be included during the early part of diagnosis, when physicians are trying to determine the stage of the cancer. The seriousness of NSCLC is rated from N0 to N3, with N0 being cancer that has not spread from the original tumor; and N1 to N3 referring to increasingly serious stages that have spread to lymph...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-05-25)

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