Routine use of PET scans to follow up asymptomatic patients do not affect survival, according to this retrospective analysis of a cohort of 97,152 lung cancer and 4,446 esophageal cancer patients. They compared high and low level of use of PET centers, and found no differences in two-year survival.
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Use of Positron Emission Tomography to Detect Recurrence and Associations With Survival in Patients With Lung and Esophageal Cancers
Source: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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Author(s): Mark A. Healy, Huiying Yin, Rishindra M. Reddy and Sandra L. Wong
