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JUNE 13, 2017

Study Evaluates PET/CT, MRI for Breast Cancer Monitoring

In patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer, PET/CT may be more useful than MRI for monitoring tumor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, according to a new report. The investigators, at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, in Amsterdam, wanted to evaluate whether one screening method might be more effective than the other depending on the breast cancer subtype (PLoS ONE 2017;12[5]:e0176782, PMID: 28531188).

For the study, the investigators enrolled 188