CANCER

How a PET Scan can make a difference to you:

• Early intervention is PET's most important benefit. The earlier the detection, the likelier the cure. Prior to changes in structure that normally would show up on a CT or MRI scan, a PET scan can reveal metabolic changes in the body. How? PET is a metabolic imaging technique and cancer is a metabolic process.
• PET shows whether or not a tumour is benign or malignant. No other imaging technique can do this. Reports in the scientific literature find that PET correctly identifies detected lesions 97% of the time. Painful, invasive surgery, such as thoracotomy, may no longer be necessary for diagnosis.
• PET shows the extent of disease -- called staging -- of lung cancer, colon cancer, , breast cancer, melanoma, lymphoma and many other cancers. For patients whose cancer is newly diagnosed, it is important to determine if the cancer has spread to other parts of the body, so that appropriate treatment can be started. PET can search the entire body for cancer in a single examination, called a "whole body scan", revealing any metastases as well as the primary site.
• PET shows the effectiveness of therapy. It is an excellent test to monitor for recurrence of disease.

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