Imaging for Physicists

FDG-PET improves accuracy of staging in non-small cell lung cancer

• Addition of PET changes the TNM clinical stage of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer • patient with diagnosis of T1N0M0 stage I adenocarcinoma. • PET shows a pre-tracheal lymph node. • Stage changes to T1N2M0

Bradley et al. 2004; Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 59:78-86