In a 2019 study, of the 1,075 people who underwent an endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) to diagnose swollen chest lymph nodes, cancer was the most common ...

According to Dr Mutua, a PET scan can detect cancer in lymph nodes and organs that appear normal on a chest CT scan.

In the study, researchers followed 65 female patients with IDC who had undergone pretreatment F-18-FDG PET/CT and who had pathologically confirmed axillary lymph node involvement without distant ...

Peter Carroll, MD, MPH, UCSF Department of Urology It is a major improvement over previous methods, such as CT or MRI, which had been unable to detect the cancer’s spread to lymph nodes. Prostate ...

Typically, a PET scan is performed alongside a chest CT scan. The two scans are fused to provide combined information for more accurate interpretation,” he says.