PET scan can non invasively measure early assessment of treatment for common type of breast cancer

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 13:42 in Health & Medicine

Non-invasive imaging can measure how well patients with the most common form of breast cancer - estrogen receptor positive type - respond to standard aromatase inhibitor therapy after only two weeks and shows similar findings that more invasive needle sampling identifies, according to a poster presentation to be presented at the ASCO annual meeting next week.

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