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What imaging is used to monitor response?

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• May 27, 2020

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Learn about imaging in monitoring response in this HealthTree University lesson by a cancer specialist.

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[Music] what a binging is used to monitor response at the moment the best we have is FD cheap hat flu dioxyde glucose pet which is developed for other cancers and other diseases but it's the best that we have it's more or less proofed we can use it for myeloma it's at least in the u.s. you you you get paid for it so we get it we can offer it to our patients there are new developments called diffusion-weighted imaging which is a little bit more sensitive it's not approved yet it has never been compared like head to head in a larger prospective trial retrospective analysis show that it has a higher sensitivity about 10% higher than PET CT so at the moment PET CT is the standard of care for monitoring after treatment diffusion-weighted imaging might be something that is beneficial and there are some colleagues working on that too to look into the comparison of those [Music]

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