title: [The therapeutic impact of PET-FDG scanning in broncho-pulmonary cancer].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Because of the expected high performances of scintigraphic scans with [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) not only in diagnostics and but also in therapeutic impact, especially in thoracic oncology, there are a lot of French nuclear medicine departments which will soon be equipped with a positron emission tomograph (PET).
  
  
  METHODS
  The Nuclear Medicine Department of the Hôpital d'Instructions des Armées du Val-de-Grâce, Paris, led a retrospective study among physicians interested in 338 FDG-PET exams performed between may 2000 and march 2002 in order to compare its own results with international literature concerning four indications for lung cancer: pulmonary nodule or mass malignancy diagnostic, lung carcinoma extension evaluation, therapeutic efficiency, recurrence suspicion.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There seems to be no divergence, regarding limitation induced by the not exhaustive analysis of the retrospective study: more than every two FDG-PET exam highly influenced the effective therapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  That is why clinical FDG-PET has to be widely developed to investigate lung cancer.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine Nucléaire, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées du Val-de-Grâce, Paris, France. cyrille.blondet@chru-strasbourg.fr
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blondet
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vaylet
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cochet
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bonardel
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mognetti
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maszelin
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Gaillard
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Foehrenbach
mesh_terms: D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires