Dynamic PET acquisition-a Quantitative Technique for Grading of Malignant Tumors and Prediction of Response to Treatment

Rambam Health Care Campus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pancreatic Cancer

Treatments: Device: PET-CT

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00294840

PETDCTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess a quantitative kinetic model of FDG uptake measurement using PET in patients with aggressive Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and cancer of the pancreas, malignancies with known variability in disease aggressiveness and prognosis, for optimized tailoring of the therapeutic strategy in the individual patient.

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age>18
• newly diagnosed untreated aggressive NHL
• newly diagnosed untreated cancer of pancreas

Exclusion criteria

• none