2002 DEC 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Whole-body FDG PET scans were able to identify previously undetected disease and also confirm that precancerous conditions had not become active disease for 66 patients with multiple myeloma and related conditions studied by researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles California.
Their findings were published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
For 16 patients with previously untreated active myeloma, the whole-body scans identified those at high risk, and provided important information on their disease's status. One-quarter of the patients had no evidence of disease on a routine skeletal bone scan, …
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