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FDG-PET has impact on treatment strategy
• 30% of patients referred to RT based on
conventional staging, received palliative RT
after PET
– 18% distant metastases
– 12% extensive locoregional disease
• “Addition of PET strongly influences
treatment strategy and frequently impacts
RT planning”
(MacManus et al. 2001; Cancer 92:886-895)