Rectal Cancer

Data on Rectal Cancer Reported by J. Buijsen and Co-Researchers

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 21st, 2011

2011 JUN 21 -- In this recent report, researchers in Maastricht, Netherlands conducted a study "To compare CT-, MR- and PET-CT based tumor length measurements in rectal cancer with pathology. Twenty-six rectal cancer patients underwent both MR and PET-CT imaging followed by short-course radiotherapy (RT 5 x 5 Gy) and surgery within 3 days after RT."

"Tumor length was measured manually and independently by 2 observers on CT, MR and PET. PET-based tumor length measurements were also generated automatically using the signal-to-background-ratio (SBR) method. All measurements were correlated with the tumor length on the pathological specimen. CT-based...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-06-21)

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