Cancer

SNM congratulates NOPR and its supporting organizations on successful conclusion of project

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, April 28th, 2008

SNM congratulates the Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI), the American College of Radiology (ACR) and ACR Imaging Network (ACRIN) on the recent release of significant data from the National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR) that dramatically illustrate the effectiveness of positron emission tomography (PET) in the diagnosis of cancer.

The study—reported in an article authored by Hillner et al. published March 24 online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology—analyzed data from nearly 23,000 patients contributed by more than 1200 facilities nationwide. It showed that clinicians changed the intended care of more than one in three cancer patients as the result of FDG-PET scan...

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Source: Clinical Oncology Week (2008-04-28)

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