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Critical review of PET-CT for radiotherapy planning in lung cancer by Suresh Senan; Dirk De Ruysscher is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Critical review of PET-CT for radiotherapy planning in lung cancer about?
In the last decade, FDG-PET scans have had a major impact on the treatment of patients with NSCLC. The benefits of staging PET scans are well established, with improved selection of patients for curative radiotherapy or aggressive chemo-radiotherapy. The large body of literature correlating FDG-PET with nodal pathology in NSCLC makes it rational to use PET for designing mediastinal radiation fields. However, suboptimal image-fusion and a low spatial resolution for PET scans, makes use of PET for defining target volumes for primary tumours questionable. Data on the role of PET scans for radiotherapy planning for limited stage small-cell lung cancer is limited, although the incorporation of FDG-PET positive regions would appear to be reasonable.
Who reads Critical review of PET-CT for radiotherapy planning in lung cancer?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Medicine.
- Author
- Suresh Senan; Dirk De Ruysscher
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1040-8428)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)