Breast Cancer

PET Scan Results Change Management For 60% Patients

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 13th, 2001

A PET scan changed the clinical management of 60% of women with recurrent breast cancer. It also changed the cancer staging for 36% of those scanned, according to a new survey of referring physicians published September 4, 2001, in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Results for 50 patients with breast cancer were reported by 32 different physicians. Clinical management changes included moving from one type of treatment to another, that is, from surgery to radiation therapy, or from medical treatment to no treatment. Other changes were within the existing treatment, i.e., changing from one kind of chemotherapy to another.

The impact of the PET...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2001-09-13)

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