With positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, seeing is believing: Evaluating a patient`s response to chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) typically involves visual interpretation of scans of cancer tumors. Researchers have found that measuring a quantitative indexone that reflects the reduction of metabolic activity after chemotherapy first beginsadds accurate information about patients` responses to first-line chemotherapy, according to a study in the October issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Quantitative PET imaging finds early determination of effectiveness of cancer treatment
- PhysOrg
- 23. 10 2007 (19:48)