Report from SNM: PET avoids unnecessary liver resection for metastatic colon cancer

June 17, 2008 Report from SNM: PET avoids unnecessary liver resection for metastatic colon cancer James Brice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liver resection for metastatic colon cancer is painful and debilitating enough, without a patient's subsequent discovery that the surgery did nothing to halt disease progression. A multicenter prospective trial presented Monday at the Society of Nuclear Medicine conference in New Orleans found that FDG-PET prevents unnecessary surgeries for one of six patients who undergo liver resection based on CT findings. The possible outcome improvement from PET addresses the 50% of patients who historically experience recurrence in the year after liver resection and the 25% who are found to have unresectable metastatic disease at the time of their laparotomies, according to Dr. W.J.G. Oyen of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands.

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