Dear Mayo Clinic: My father just started chemotherapy for lymphoma, and he is scheduled for a positron emission tomography or PET scan after his first three treatments. How do doctors decide when ...

Learn about the role of PET scans in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. This article looks at diagnosis, staging, how PET scans work, and more.

A PET/CT scan performed after the fourth cycle of chemotherapy showed no evidence of lymphoma. He underwent a repeat surveillance PET/CT scan 9 months after chemotherapy, and it showed a solitary ...

PET scans can show the difference between tissues that are actively growing (like cancer) and an old injury or scar. So it can also show if swollen lymph nodes after treatment are scar tissue or ...

Despite the lack of data to justify them, periodic surveillance PET scans during remission are performed frequently. “I lit up like a Christmas tree,” says Heather McLean of the PET (positron emission ...

PET scans are regularly used to guide therapy in lymphoma but are only beginning to be explored for this purpose in solid tumors, according to ASCO. This study was supported by grants from the ...

Investigators randomly assigned 108 patients with positive PET scan to receive six additional cycles of R-CHOP (n = 52) or six blocks of an intensive Burkitt lymphoma protocol (n = 56).

Adding Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) to frontline chemotherapy for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma led to improved outcomes, regardless of post-therapy PET scan results, which are typically used to ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My father just started chemotherapy for lymphoma, and he is scheduled for a positron emission tomography or PET scan after his first three treatments. How do doctors decide when t… ...