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FDG PET/CT imaging after just one week may predict treatment response in patients with advanced melanoma Peer-Reviewed Publication American Association for Cancer Research ...

Results: 2 patients (6%) had a positive PET scan neither of which was melanoma related. The first patient had a thyroid tumour confirmed with fine needle aspiration biopsy and the second patient had ...

The group says certain blood tests can be used as high fidelity negative tests, since they have over 90% sensitivity. Positive results would still need to be confirmed with traditional tests like PET ...

Changes in melanoma metastases identified using early 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT scans were found potentially predictive of pembrolizumab response and had a significant correlation with ...