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New House bill calls for change in CMS definition of radiopharmaceuticals
From: DOTmed: Introduced late last month by congressmen George Holding (R.-NC) and Seth Moulton (D.-MA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Medicare Diagnostic Radiopharmaceutical Payment Equity Act of 2018 seeks to change the status of radiopharmaceuticals so that ...
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MITA APPLAUDS INTRODUCTION OF H.R. 6948, THE MEDICARE DIAGNOSTIC RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL PAYMENT EQUITY ACT OF 2018
From: Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance: The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) – the leading organization and collective voice of medical imaging equipment, radiopharmaceutical manufacturers, innovators, and product developers – applauds Congressmen Holding and Moulton for introducing legislation that ...
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Tau PET Tracer Called Accurate for Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
From: MedPage Today: Positron emission tomography (PET) quantification of tau protein aggregates in the brain with an 18F-labeled tracer called flortaucipir discriminated Alzheimer's disease from other neurodegenerative diseases with strong though imperfect accuracy, a large, multicenter study found. Among more than ...
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PET with CT twice as likely to change cervical cancer treatment plans
From: Health Imaging: Using PET imaging in addition to conventional CT imaging for women with locally advanced cervical cancer may identify more detailed malignancies and change treatment plans, according to research published online Sept. 14 in JAMA Network Open. The researchers found that both modalities led ...
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What happens when cancer patients receive PET-CT instead of CT alone?
From: Radiology Business: For women with locally advanced cervical cancer, PET imaging, in addition to conventional CT scans, can give physicians a more detailed look at lymph node metastases. A small clinical trial in Canada showed that using both imaging ...
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New PET imaging method may yield benefits over FDG for detecting certain cancers
From: DOTmed: German researchers have developed a PET imaging method that may raise the bar on diagnosing certain cancers. The method targets cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), which have been linked to tumor growth and are present in over 90 percent of ...
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NCI Expert Stresses Importance of Multimodal Imaging in Prostate Cancer
From: OncLive: Multimodality imaging holds the keys to providing personalized therapy to patients with prostate cancer, said Peter L. Choyke, MD, FACP. Each screening platform has pros and cons, but their limitations can be erased with a combined effort, added ...
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Nuclear PET imaging method developed for tumor detection
From: Drug Target Review: A team of German researchers have developed a PET imaging technique which targets cancer-associated fibroblasts to help diagnose widespread tumors, such as breast, colon, pancreatic and lung cancers. The technique has equal or improved accuracy to current techniques, ...
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Amyloid PET May Aid Clinical Diagnosis of Dementia, Whether Negative or Positive
From: Medscape: Although previous research has assessed the diagnostic impact of amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) in various research samples, these populations may not be representative of daily practice. Clinical implementation of amyloid PET imaging based on these earlier studies ...
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