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Lung alert
Routine PET for early lung cancer
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The optimal treatment for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (stage I–IIIA) is surgical resection. This requires accurate staging to prevent inappropriate surgery. Despite conventional staging (CS) with CT chest and abdomen, bone isotope scan and brain imaging, the 5-year survival is only 50%, with the majority of the deaths being due to lung cancer recurrence.
This randomised, adequately powered, study compares CS (n=162) with the …