Restaging colorectal cancer and PET/CT
Alev Çınar1, Esra Arzu Gençoğlu2, Meliha Korkmaz1
1Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, Ankara Teaching Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
2Department of Nuclear Medicine, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Abstract
Positron Emission Tomography/Computerized Tomography (PET/CT), is an important assessment method in restaging oncology patients. Its ability to detect the metabolic/functional changes in patients with colorectal cancer during the early stages, in which no morphological changes occur, is significantly better than the other imaging modalities.
Keywords: Colorectal cancer, restaging, PET-CT
Externally peer-reviewed.
Concept - A.Ç., E.A.G.; Design - A.Ç., E.A.G., M.K.; Supervision - A.Ç., M.K.; Funding - A.Ç., M.K.; Materials - A.Ç., E.A.G.; Data Collection and/or Processing - A.Ç., E.A.G., M.K.; Analysis and/or Interpretation - A.Ç., M.K.; Literature Review - A.Ç., M.K.; Writer - A.Ç.; Critical Review - M.K., E.A.G.
No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.
The authors declared that this study has received no financial support.