MRI and PET/CT can help spare patients with clinically operable cervical cancer from unnecessary high-morbidity treatment, however, pretreatment imaging does not lead to increased survival of these patients, a new study shows.
"We developed a decision-analytic model to determine the value of pretreatment imaging in the patients with stage 1B cervical cancer," said Pari Pandharipande, MD, MPH, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and lead author of the study. "What we found was that PET/CT alone best triages patients to the correct primary therapy," she said. The percentage of patients triaged to optimal first line therapy was 89% with PET/CT, Dr. Pandharipande said. That compared to 82% with no imaging, 75% with MRI and PET/CT and 68% with MRI.
source: Medical News Today
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