Effectiveness of PET/CT with 18F-fluorothymidine in the staging of patients with squamous cell head and neck carcinomas before radiotherapy

Abstract

The aim of our study was to compare the staging of the disease declared before anti-cancer treatment was begun with the staging that was found after the planning PET/CTscanning with18F-FLT was performed.

Keywords

• 18F-fluorothymidine
• PET/CT
• Radiotherapy planning
• Head and neck carcinomasa