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Preoperative PET and the Reduction of Unnecessary Surgery Among Newly Diagnosed Lung Cancer Patients in a Community Setting

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Source URL: http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/55/3/379.abstract

Author(s)

ZB Zeliadt, ET Loggers, CG Slatore, DH Au, PL Herbert, GJ Klein, LG Kessler, LM Backhus

During the period 1997-2009, nearly 3,000 military veterans with NSCLC were evaluated regarding the utility of PET in staging their cancers. PET use increased in frequency during the study period from 9% to 91%. PET reduced the chance of unnecessary surgery by nearly 50%.