Abstract:Introduction Current NICE guidance indicates that lung cancer should be staged by a contrast enhanced chest CT scan which includes the liver and adrenals, and to look for distant metastases those with potentially curable disease should be offered PET-CT scanning. However, the latter is expensive and limited in availability, and it has been suggested that including the pelvic area in the staging CT scan might obviate the need (Botchua et al 2012). We looked at 284 PET-CT scans performed for the staging of lung… Show more
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