Traditional Versus Up-Front [ ¹⁸ F] Fluorodeoxyglucose–Positron Emission Tomography Staging of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Dutch Cooperative Randomized Study

Abstract

Up-front 18FDG-PET in patients with (suspected) lung cancer does not reduce the overall number of diagnostic test, but it maintains quality of TNM staging with the use of less invasive surgery.