November 26, 2007 — Whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) completed after cervical cancer treatment predicts outcome, a new study shows. The work by researchers from the Washington ...

Cervical cancer cells grow at a faster rate and therefore have a higher rate of glucose consumption than the normal cells making up the lymph node. Thus, PET can often identify the presence of ...

Background: Previosly, we reported the accuracy of positron emission tomography with 2-[fluorine18] fluoro-2-deoxy-D- glucose (FDG-PET) for detecting metastatic lymph node (LN) in cervical cancer (Eur ...

Post-treatment PET Scans Can Reassure Cervical Cancer Patients. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 11 / 071120195714.htm.

PET scans confirmed the presence of a cervical tumor in 100 of the 101 women, while CT scans identified only 77. In the lymph nodes, PET revealed abnormal pelvic nodes in 67 of the women, while CT ...

A preoperative whole-body PET-CT scan revealed what appeared to be cancer spread in the left and right iliac lymph nodes, the team reports. The patient then underwent surgery for the cervical ...

An Ontario clinical study that shows adding PET imaging to conventional CT imaging to stage locally advanced cervix cancer can change treatment means newly diagnosed women in this province may ...

The SLN can be found in unusual locations, such as the common iliac nodes, presacral nodes, or occasionally para-aortic nodes, without involvement of the external iliac, internal iliac, ...