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Positron emission tomography: clinical applications in oncology. Part 2.

Kumar R, Chauhan A

Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, E-62, Ansari Nagar (East) AIIMS Campus, New Delhi-110029, India. rkphulia@yahoo.com

This review continues from a previous review on this topic, which was published in the December issue. In that review, the role of positron emission tomography in lung cancer, lymphoma, breast cancer, head and neck cancer, gastroesophageal cancer, colorectal cancer, malignant melanoma, bone tumors and ovarian cancer was discussed. In this review, the role of positron emission tomography in other malignancies, such as gynecological malignancies other than ovary, pancreatic cancer, hepatocellular cancer, gastrointestinal tumors, urological malignancies, neuroendocrine tumors, adrenocortical tumors, soft-tissue sarcomas, pituitary and brain tumors, is discussed.

Published 14 April 2006 in Expert Rev Anticancer Ther, 6(4): 625-40.
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