Journal of International Oncology››2016,Vol. 43››Issue (2): 133-.

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The advances in diagnosis and treatment of nonsmall cell lung cancer with PET-CT

ZHAO Xiang-Rong, ZHANG Yong, YU Yong-Hua

  1. School of Medical and Life Sciences, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Ji′nan University, Ji′nan 250022,China
  • Online:2016-02-08Published:2015-12-28

Abstract:PET-CT plays a increasing important role in the treatment of lung cancer. Compared with CT, the advantage of PET-CT is obvious, which is more accuracy when determine a metastasis and identify inflammatory lesions. What′s more, on the basis of the accuracy staging, PET-CT change many strategies which were based on traditional image, resulting in improving the treatment effect. While the assessment and prediction of the efficacy by PET-CT also exerted an important influence on the formulation of treatment strategies.

Key words:Carcinoma, nonsmallcell lung,Fluorodeoxyglucose F18,Positronemission tomography,Tomography,Xray computed