PET-CT Better than PET in Detecting Cancer Spread Johns Hopkins University radiologists have found that a combination of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) detects cancer spread better than PET alone http://groups.yahoo.com/group/experimentalandunconventional/message/800
Usefulness of PET to detect peritoneal recurrence When it comes to detecting disease outside the liver, CT just doesn't work: The sensitivity of FDG-PET was 88% and its diagnostic accuracy was 78%, whereas those of CT were 38% and 44%, respectively http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12433608&dopt=Abstract