PET confirmed as valuable cancer diagnostic and disease-staging ...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 03/25/2008 - 23:00

The recent release of data by the National Oncologic PET Registry showing that positron emission tomography produced scans revealing disease at a molecular level, which then caused physicians to change treatment plans for more than one-third of participating patients, has corroborated decades of nuclear medicine research.

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