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Determining chemo effectiveness after a single treatment

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Patients undergoing chemotherapy often must wait months before learning whether the treatment is working. A team at Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, recently showed that it could determine the pathologic response after only a single cycle of chemotherapy. In a study reported about a year ago, the researchers demonstrated that changes in glucose metabolism, as measured by positron emission tomography (PET), are more accurate in predicting pathologic response to therapy than changes in tumor size, as shown by computed tomography (CT). The...Read full article

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    Published: July 2009
    BiophotonicschemotherapyNews & Featuresoncologypositron emission tomography (PET)

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