PET scans in radiotherapy planning of lung cancer.

De Ruysscher, Dirk; Kirsch, Carl-Martin · Radiother Oncol · 2010

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Abstract

Especially for non-small cell lung cancer, FDG-PET has in the majority of the patients led to the safe decrease of radiotherapy volumes, enabling radiation-dose escalation and, experimentally, redistribution of radiation doses within the tumor. In limited-disease small cell lung cancer, the role of FDG-PET is emerging.

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