Staging non-small cell lung cancer
Open Access
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by E-MED LTD in Cancer Imaging
- Vol. 7 (1) , 148-159
Abstract
Staging non-small cell lung cancer - Cancer Imaging Staging non-small cell lung cancer - Patients with newly diagnosed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) need accurate tumor staging in order to direct appropriate therapy and establish prognosis; the tumor is usually staged using the TNM system. The major imaging modalities currently used for staging this disease are thoracic computed tomography (CT) (including the adrenal glands) and whole body fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET) scanning. CT is generally most useful in evaluating the T stage, i.e. local spread of the neoplasm, whereas PET is most helpful in assessing the N and M stages, i.e.Keywords
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