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Table 1 Medicare-accepted indications (2007) for positron emission tomography (PET) for Cancers

From: The impact of functional imaging on radiation medicine

INDICATION

PURPOSE

Breast cancer

Staging, restaging, evaluating treatment response

Colorectal cancer

Diagnosis, staging, restaging

Esophageal cancer

Diagnosis, staging, restaging

Head and neck cancer

Diagnosis, staging, restaging

Lung cancer

Diagnosis, staging, restaging

Lymphoma

Diagnosis, staging, restaging

Melanoma

Diagnosis, staging, restaging

Solitary pulmonary nodules

Characterization

Thyroid cancer

Restaging(with negative iodine-131 scan and positive thyroglobulin)