PET - BREAST CANCER
40-year-old female with breast cancer had lumpectomy along with chemo/radiation
therapy one year prior. The patient experienced pain in the right shoulder 10
months later.Bone scan negative. CT scan initially read as negative.Whole-body,
FDG PET scan found numerous lymph node metastases in the upper chest.Treatment
plan based on conventional diagnostic techniques would have been watchful waiting.
PET scan found a number of lymph node metastases, and patient was put back on
chemo/radiation therapy. Re-read of CT after PET still could not accurately gauge
extent of disease.
Courtesy of Amjad Ali, M.D. · Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical
Center. And CTI, Inc. SIEMENS - CTI
