Eleven patients with histologically proven adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were treated with protracted venous infusional 5-fluorouracil (PVI 5-FU) alone or PVI 5-FU and mitomycin C (MMC) FDG-PET ...

Improvements in the diagnostic tools used for the early detection and accurate staging of pancreatic cancer are therefore urgently needed. ...the value of FDG-PET in the diagnosis and staging of ...

For people with the grim diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, the news may have gotten just a shade brighter. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center found that using ...

"Documenting infection of pancreatic necrosis/pancreatic or ... "This study suggests that PET-CT using FDG-labeled leucocytes may be useful in swiftly and accurately detecting or ruling out ...

Imaging modalities commonly employed to evaluate pancreatic cancer include contrast-enhanced CT (CECT), MRI, MR cholangiopancreaticography, and PET with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG). A new study ...

More information: Ananya Panda et al, Borderline Resectable and Locally Advanced Pancreas Cancer: FDG PET/MRI and CT Tumor Metrics for Assessment of Neoadjuvant Therapy Pathologic Response and ...

Adults with localised pancreatic cancer on CT have staging using fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/CT (FDG‑PET/CT) before they have surgery, radiotherapy or systemic therapy. Undergoing ...

PET imaging with 68 Ga-FAPI can more effectively detect and stage pancreatic cancer as compared with 18 F-FDG imaging or contrast-enhanced CT, according to new research published in the December ...

offer a pancreatic protocol CT scan before draining the bile duct. 1.1.2 If the diagnosis is still unclear, offer fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/CT (FDG‑PET/CT) and/or endoscopic ...

"Documenting infection of pancreatic necrosis/pancreatic or ... "This study suggests that PET-CT using FDG-labeled leucocytes may be useful in swiftly and accurately detecting or ruling out ...

Post-neoadjuvant therapy changes in metabolic metrics from PET/MRI and morphologic metrics from CT were associated with pathologic response and overall survival in patients with pancreatic ductal ...