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Review
. 2010 Sep;96(3):335-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.07.002. Epub 2010 Jul 23.

PET scans in radiotherapy planning of lung cancer

Dirk De Ruysscher  1 , Carl-Martin Kirsch
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PET scans in radiotherapy planning of lung cancer

Dirk De Ruysscher et al. Radiother Oncol. 2010 Sep.

Abstract

Especially for non-small cell lung cancer, FDG-PET has in the majority of the patients led to the safe decrease of radiotherapy volumes, enabling radiation-dose escalation and, experimentally, redistribution of radiation doses within the tumor. In limited-disease small cell lung cancer, the role of FDG-PET is emerging.

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